Torch coral losing tips

[Fredrxn]

Hello guys...was cleaning tank today and I was seeing green balls on sand bed and rocks....so looked at my torch and it's missing some of it's tips...is this normal for this to happen...torch looks happy..here a few pics... torch is in about 100 to 150 par

Nitrates 12.8
Po4 0.04

Thanks

 

[Zach B]

Any new changes to the tank? Or new inhabitants? Best of luck I'm sure someone will know more!

 

[Fredrxn]

Nah nothing new

 

[Blake423]

Bump

 

[LeftyReefer]

Did you brush the torch with your cleaning wand or cleaning magnet? I've done that a few times by accident.

As long as parameters and water quality are good, it should recover fine.

 

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Do you feed the coral? I've found that when I feed my coral, the fish will eventually nip at the tentacles to try and steal the food. Since they don't eat coral, it results in pieces on the sand. Possibly hermits doing it as well.

 

[MERKEY]

Mine do it all the time.

Fish nip at them or snails will get a tenticle stuck under it and rip it.

 

[bestfishes]

I have brown tentacles with green tips. Have you ever noticed a torch with a green tip growing in the middle of a tentacle? That seems to be the place it falls off from and then grows back out. I think they grow and fall off all the time in my tank so its normal. Just a few here and there. If they started falling off en mass it would indicate a problem.

 

[Fredrxn]

Do you feed the coral? I've found that when I feed my coral, the fish will eventually nip at the tentacles to try and steal the food. Since they don't eat coral, it results in pieces on the sand. Possibly hermits doing it as well.

I don't feed it

 

[Fredrxn]

Did you brush the torch with your cleaning wand or cleaning magnet? I've done that a few times by accident.

As long as parameters and water quality are good, it should recover fine.

Ok

 

[Fredrxn]

Any new changes to the tank? Or new inhabitants? Best of luck I'm sure someone will know more!

No