Ok just give us as much info as you can. It is not uncommon for a torch to lose a head here or there but often other factors cause it. BJD would be noticeable in the dying head and have a fouls smell. BJD is caused by extreme problem with parameters in the tank stressing euphyllia and reducing their immune system.
Cool and all your numbers
I don't know if there is a relationship between stress in the corals and BJD popping up. I started doing a cipro dip and QT of all my Octo/hammer/torches any time I got new additions. In the past I would have great Euphyllia and then I would add a coral and wipe everything out. So never again will I add a new one without doing a bath first and making sure it doesn't have BJD. Once it's in the tank then Cipro treating is the only thing I have found effective.
Appears to be BJD. Smell test can confirm it. You can frag off diseased heads and cipro dip the rest. BJD is caused by the tank environment and typically attack euphyllia like torches. Euphyllia like dirty water nitrates 10 and phosphate at .1. So your nutrients numbers are very low. Corals decline from the inside out so it can take months before the stress on them shows. Sometimes corals develop BJD from shipping stress to and you introduce that to your tank. You definitely want to carefully remove the diseased corals though to save your other euphyllia.
Well that’s something else that makes this frustrating and confusing. I haven’t added anything to my tank in over 6 months. I also do qt on anything going in my tank. I see treating with Ciprofloxacin is being advised a lot but ciprofloxacin is not easy to come by.
So you recommend treating the affected corals out of the tank if possible?
To start with, yes. I have also done whole tank treatment with cipro with success previously.
Yea I recently did a in tank treatment with the KFC dip. It seemed to have worked but now this has happened again. There’s been no additions to the tank. I know my nutrients are low but my tank is 4 years old and nutrients has always been low. Confused on how the tank can be doing so well that there’s torch spawns all over the tank but this continues to happen.
Do the infected corals have a foul smell? Did you remove them? didn't know you could KFC a tank, thought it was for dipping outside a tank. Keep in mind when you treat a whole tank you might be killing good bacteria along with the bad and having a negative impact on your biome.
Actually I did pull out the coral that looks the worse and didn’t smell bad. It really just smelled like tank water. Usually that bad smell is pretty strong and it didn’t smell like that. There is a procedure for KFC in tank, you just have to be a subscriber to get the procedure.
