Torch dieing

[MounteeFrag]

A couple weeks ago I brought home a neon green 5 head torch, I acclimated and dipped and placed in my tank. 2 days later I lost two heads within 5 days I lost them all. I tested every water parameter all was good. I even removed and dipped again when I had only two heads left. I took the skeleton out and discarded. Now the gold tip torch I have had for over a year is starting to do the something. What is going on? Will this problem spread to any other type of coral? It is not brown jelly!

 

[akitareefer]

What does it look like? I have trouble believing its not brown jelly. Pink line syndrome?

 

[eliramos]

go get some coral rx and dip all your lps for about ten minutes!

 

[MounteeFrag]

Akitareefer, the tenicals just disappear and a bright white skeleton remains.

 

[MounteeFrag]

Eliramos, I have dipped the torch. Do you guys think one of my fish would cause it?

 

[Tab28]

There are fish that could but would need to know what you have. I had a peppermint shrimp ate at mine. It would cut off tentacles. But not only did i see it do it. I saw pieces of the tentacles floating around in tank. For a fish to totally clean all pieces and not leave anything is a stretch, but nothing is impossible. Was the torch looking good? Was the flesh, not the tentacles, wrapped to the outside of the skeleton? It should be like a layer of flesh colored skin on the outside around the sides sometimes an inch below the the head. Happy euphyllia wrap their flesh around the outside of skeleton.

 

[MounteeFrag]

Tab28, they both looked or have been really healthy. I currently have in my tank a peppermint shrimp also. Stock is, flame angel, foxface, naso, clowns, engineer goby. I can't figure it out. It all started after adding the big neon green torch

 

[eliramos]

Could it be some kind of chemical warfare are all your other corals ok
Be weary of that flame angel and that peppermint! Ive seen my peppermint go for my frogspawn before

 

[Tab28]

Well i personally know peppermint shrimp will eat, but as i noted it was small parts it would cut off not entire heads. Angles and triggers are also know to eat lps. Especially if they get bored or hungry .Are your water perimeters are all in check, no ph or alk spikes or lows.

 

[MounteeFrag]

Ok guys thanks for the ideas, ill watch to see if something is eating it.

 

[Andy_B]

I had the same issue a few months back. Ended up fragging off more than half the heads as they were dying one by one. Gave it a long dip in CoralRX and a worm came out. Been fine ever since.