Torch melting?????

[britnicole1724]

Help! Is my torch melting? We literally just got it Saturday. Last week all of my parameters were in line. Alkalinity 10.6 pH 8.4 nitrate 10.4 phosphate .01 temp 78.4 nitrite 0 salinity 1.025
Calcium 444 magnesium 1215

Everything else is looking great! Tonight is water change night and testing night. These are parameters from last Thursday. Seneye in my tank hasn’t indicated anything is out of wack. We were battling hair algae but it appears to slowly be going away. Phosphates were at one point really high - I lowered lighting and was dosing microbacter 7 and to lower phosphates and help with hair algae. I haven’t tested this week because testing day is usually Thursdays.

 

[fishguy242]

hi, can you post white pics ?

 

[vetteguy53081]

No but is recession due to stress likely from any or all of the following:
Low calcium
Too much water flow
Lighting too dim or too bright
Pests
High phosphates

A FEW THINGS TO CHECK

 

[britnicole1724]

hi, can you post white pics ?

I will when I get home! I ran home on my lunch to take my dog out and when I looked at the tank I noticed. Back at work now

 

[britnicole1724]

No but is recession due to stress likely from any or all of the following:
Low calcium
Too much water flow
Lighting too dim or too bright
Pests
High phosphates

A FEW THINGS TO CHECK

It looks like the one side is lifting off in the flow. I lowered it as low as it’ll go for now. Lighting is at 20% I have radions and had them at 80% which really helped growth in my other corals but hair algae was loving it too so I lowered them.

 

[Ryde]

It looks like the one side is lifting off in the flow. I lowered it as low as it’ll go for now. Lighting is at 20% I have radions and had them at 80% which really helped growth in my other corals but hair algae was loving it too so I lowered them.

"It looks like the one side is lifting off in the flow."
Sounds like it's now onto polyp bailout. This is when Euphyllia will purposefully drop its polyps as a way of starting a new colony several miles away from the mother colony or to find favorable conditions.
Sorry to say but in might not be attached to its base when you get home/may be dead.
Best of luck.

If you're lucky and can get it to live I've heard there are ways to get it to attach back, but unsure.

 

[vetteguy53081]

It looks like the one side is lifting off in the flow. I lowered it as low as it’ll go for now. Lighting is at 20% I have radions and had them at 80% which really helped growth in my other corals but hair algae was loving it too so I lowered them.

They need moderate to medium flow which provides their building blocks and color known as zooxanthellae
The coral should be swaying like hula dancing and not bent to one side which is an indicator of excess water flow

 

[britnicole1724]

They need moderate to medium flow which provides their building blocks and color known as zooxanthellae
The coral should be swaying like hula dancing and not bent to one side which is an indicator of excess water flow

It honestly looked amazing yesterday before I went to bed. I didn’t check this morning. I’ve had my flow at about 50%. I just turned it down.