Gold Indo torch help!

[h20cyclone]

Came home to my gold indo torch all shrunken up this morning. Both of the two head are fully retracted completely. One head is visibly worse then the other. I did a 20 gallon water change the day before. Not sure what happened. It was fine literally two days before so I’m at a loss at what happened.
Parameters are:
Salinity: 1.025
Alk: 1550
Dkh: 7.8
Cal: 450
Nitrate: 0 or as close to zero as the test will show
Phosphates: 0 or as close to zero as the test will show

I’ll post pictures soon.

 

[attiland]

LPS in general don’t like 0 phosphate and nitrate.
nitrate should be 5-15

 

[PeterB113]

Maybe you did too large of a WC and caused a dkh swing?? I've been noticing the same in my euphyllia garden when I did 25% WC. I've since reduced it to 10% and things are looking better than ever.

 

[h20cyclone]

LPS in general don’t like 0 phosphate and nitrate.
nitrate should be 5-15

Interesting, I’m sure it’s not a true 0 it’s just as close to being 0 as my tests will allow. Now I’m starting to think maybe my water change might or shifted it to being too clean. Before my phosphates were around .25 and nitrate and nitrites were around 5. Dang torches are the death of me. Just so frustrating that I was looking so healthy just a couple of days ago.

 

[h20cyclone]

Maybe you did too large of a WC and caused a dkh swing?? I've been noticing the same in my euphyllia garden when I did 25% WC. I've since reduced it to 10% and things are looking better than ever.

Might have to go back to doing smaller changes too. I also did about 5-10% before and that seemed to go better as well. Might have to take the loss on the torch. It’s interesting because my hammer look fine and my bubble coral is doing fantastic. But I agree it’s the only catalyst that probably would of caused it.

 

[PeterB113]

Might have to go back to doing smaller changes too. I also did about 5-10% before and that seemed to go better as well. Might have to take the loss on the torch. It’s interesting because my hammer look fine and my bubble coral is doing fantastic. But I agree it’s the only catalyst that probably would of caused it.

Yea I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why all my euphyllia (including 2 torches) would shrink up right after a WC. Thought maybe temp, nutrient swing, etc. After about 3 weeks of testing different methods, I believe Dkh was the problem. I don't dose only WC so it was a little easier to find the root of the problem. Now with 10/15% WC everything looks great.

 

[h20cyclone]

Yea I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why all my euphyllia (including 2 torches) would shrink up right after a WC. Thought maybe temp, nutrient swing, etc. After about 3 weeks of testing different methods, I believe Dkh was the problem. I don't dose only WC so it was a little easier to find the root of the problem. Now with 10/15% WC everything looks great.

Your tank looks great! For sure going to sail back the water change next time. Think I learned my lesson on this one. Sadly not a cheap lesson lol.