Unexplained torch death

[peterire]

So I have a reefer 350 10 months now, I’ve got some soft and lps corals. I’ve had this green torch around 6 months and it had been my healthiest coral up until now. One day it just just started to recede from its skeleton, pretty sure its a goner unless one head can survive.

my params

salinity 1.025
Temp 78
Alk 9.5
Calcium 475
Mag 1425
Nitrate 5ppm
Phos 0.02
Ph 8.2

I’m no expert but these test results seem like everythings in ok shape water wise.

no swings as such recently, maybe a small increase in nitrates, only because I had some dinos a few months back so wanted nutrients up.

I did start using vibrant 6 weeks ago, can’t imagine thats caused it?

Any ideas?

(i also lost an elegance and hammer a couple of months back, but they didnt last very long at all, this torch was very healthy)

maybe I should just stick to softies for now until my tanks more mature?

 

[Ryde]

Your water seems good, very close to what I run. You haven't moved this guy around have you? Like changed its flow or light level? Something to look into would be the vibrant, I have read many horror story's about vibrant killing corals and nuking tanks. Sorry if I'm no help, ill be following.

 

[fachatga]

Some people here have had issues with vibrant. I’m sure you’ll see them reply here. You may want to search for threads in vibrant killed my coral until you get better replies since I really don’t have the experience to help. Besides this tip to help you find an answer.

 

[fachatga]

Your water seems good, very close to what I run. You haven't moved this guy around have you? Like changed its flow or light level? Something to look into would be the vibrant, I have read many horror story's about vibrant killing corals and nuking tanks. Sorry if I'm no help, ill be following.

Your water seems good, very close to what I run. You haven't moved this guy around have you? Like changed its flow or light level? Something to look into would be the vibrant, I have read many horror story's about vibrant killing corals and nuking tanks. Sorry if I'm no help, ill be following.

Lol. Pretty much same answer at the same time. You just beat me to it. Too slow typing on my phone I guess.

 

[peterire]

Your water seems good, very close to what I run. You haven't moved this guy around have you? Like changed its flow or light level? Something to look into would be the vibrant, I have read many horror story's about vibrant killing corals and nuking tanks. Sorry if I'm no help, ill be following.

Thanks, I hadn’t moved the coral at all, but I had increased flow a little bit, not by much though.
i might research vibrant more. i am only dosing Once ever 2 weeks, so only two doses of 9mls have gone in so far.

 

[jassermd]

Lots of things can cause polyp bailout... but most of them are related to chemistry, swings, flow, or light.
I agree with the others thus far. Your parameters look good and without any significant swings, I’d venture to say that vibrant and/or a critter got to it. The slight change in flow may have stressed it and was what pushed it over the edge.
Even though it’s likely a goner, you may want to dip it in iodine and see if anything falls out...

 

[peterire]

Lots of things can cause polyp bailout... but most of them are related to chemistry, swings, flow, or light.
I agree with the others thus far. Your parameters look good and without any significant swings, I’d venture to say that vibrant and/or a critter got to it. The slight change in flow may have stressed it and was what pushed it over the edge.
Even though it’s likely a goner, you may want to dip it in iodine and see if anything falls out...

I did dip it and some tiny critters came out, look like bristle worms to me.

Wondering now should i just take it out, or leave it in there, most likely going to die, any harm of leaving a dying coral in a tank?

 

[jassermd]

Those could be euphyllia eating flat worms or another type of worm... regardless, that's likely what caused your torche's demise. I've seen and dealt with the same along the way...

No harm in keeping it in your tank, but there is a good risk that the damage will result in BJD, which can create havoc with other euphyllia.
My advice would be to remove it.

 

[peterire]

Those could be euphyllia eating flat worms or another type of worm... regardless, that's likely what caused your torche's demise. I've seen and dealt with the same along the way...

No harm in keeping it in your tank, but there is a good risk that the damage will result in BJD, which can create havoc with other euphyllia.
My advice would be to remove it.

Yea, think I’ll take it out. When my hammer died I found brown jelly on it after, don’t see any on this torch right now.

might get an icp test done, see if theres something else going on