What happened to my torch??

kred47 · May 22, 2022

Hi,
So on Friday I noticed my torch was a little closed. He’s been in the tank for 2 weeks and was fine up until Friday. I figured I’d wait to do my water change and tests on Sunday, which I did this morning. Also I’m dealing with a cyano outbreak but just siphoned most of it today. Haven’t dosed anything for it. I was out all yesterday, and didn’t get to check on him and now today I noticed he looks like this. What happened? I really have no clue what to do to help it.

Params:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrate: 5
Phosphate: .02
Mag: 1320
Alk: 8.0
pH: 8.08
Salinity: 1.024

Absolutely Fish · May 22, 2022

Temp?

Caruso86 · May 22, 2022

Params look good but there is no saving that unfortunately it’s a goner. No sign of any flesh

violetjones · May 22, 2022

Probably brown jelly disease

violetjones · May 22, 2022

You have an imbalance of bad bacteria in your tank. Gotta run uv and dose things to keep bad bacteria down and good bacteria up.

Reef Jockey · May 22, 2022

any other corals in your tank? did you dip the coral before placing in your tank?

CoralB · May 22, 2022

How new is the tank ? Was it properly cycled and what test kit are u using for ammonia?

stevolough · May 22, 2022

violetjones said:
You have an imbalance of bad bacteria in your tank. Gotta run uv and dose things to keep bad bacteria down and good bacteria up.

What are you basing this on?

kred47 · May 22, 2022

Reef Jockey said:
any other corals in your tank? did you dip the coral before placing in your tank?

Ya there’s a mix of lps/ sps and I did dip. It was a 30 dollar frag from the LFS wonder if they knew it wldnt last

kred47 · May 22, 2022

CoralB said:
How new is the tank ? Was it properly cycled and what test kit are u using for ammonia?

6 month old tank everything else is fine

kred47 · May 22, 2022

Caruso86 said:
Params look good but there is no saving that unfortunately it’s a goner. No sign of any flesh

I figured, sad to here wonder what went wrong. I’ve seen my coral beauty nipping a little could he have possibly torn the flesh off??

Lavey29 · May 22, 2022

Torches are very finicky and need a mature tank to thrive. Your tank is probably still developing biodiversity even though other easy corals may be doing ok.

violetjones · May 23, 2022

stevolough said:
What are you basing this on?

Euphyllia are very sensitive to bacterial imbalances. The only other thing is chemical warfare like a nearby anemone or pectinia stinging it that could cause polyp bailout like that.

All of your parameters are fine. Possible you have metal poisoning so you could do an icp test to rule that out.

Koh23 · May 23, 2022

Does torch supposed to have very long and thin tentacles, or is this sign of problems?

Sorry to tag along....

Geebs19 · May 23, 2022

Lavey29 said:
Torches are very finicky and need a mature tank to thrive. Your tank is probably still developing biodiversity even though other easy corals may be doing ok.

Disagree, torches are one of the first corals I put in my tank around 3 months. Even with the uglies they still thrive. There is an underlying issue with that torch, its not just because its a new tank. Do you have any photos of when you purchased it?

Lavey29 · May 23, 2022

Geebs19 said:
Disagree, torches are one of the first corals I put in my tank around 3 months. Even with the uglies they still thrive. There is an underlying issue with that torch, its not just because its a new tank. Do you have any photos of when you purchased it?

Sure could be an underlying issue with the OP torch but if you do a simple google search you will find that torches are not the easiest euphylia to maintain in a tank particularly a new tank less then a year old mature. Its nice that yours are doing well. How long have you had them? How many new heads on each so far? I have 5 in my tank currently.