Grown out torch slowly losing heads

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No idea what’s happening here. There have been no changes in parameters, lighting, or flow but I’ve slowly been losing torch heads over the last month. It doesn’t appear to be brown jelly.

How should I go about treating this? I have CoralRX which I’ll begin a dipping regimen today. Does anyone have any pro tips?
My fear is that this spreads to my Holy Grail

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How are your parms? How old is the tank? What light do you have and what % intensity? How long have they been in the aquarium?
 
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How are your parms? How old is the tank? What light do you have and what % intensity? How long have they been in the aquarium?
Alk 8.8
Ph 8.36
No3 6.6
Po4 .00
Calc 410
Mg (Red Sea says 1400ish consistently; icp is closer to 1250)

Parameters haven’t bounced around much for a long time; I religiously test. Don’t believe phosphate is totally accurate but phosphates are low. All my sps have decent color.

icp didn’t show any issues two weeks ago.

I have 4 t5 and 1 radion xr30 blue @65%. Torch has been getting around 250 par for months.

Tank is almost 3 years and the torch has
been in it for almost 2 years, started as a single head.

I noticed one head starting to die as it was splitting about 2 weeks ago or so. Thought it was just having a problem splitting.
 
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Euphyllia can get bacterial infections or pest bugs eating them. Perhaps an iodine dip and coral rx dip.
 

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I am pretty sure that all corals need some level of po4, I’ve never experienced my phosphates being 0 but I did experience my nitrates being 0. After they bottomed out my hammer was definitely upset. Just a small recommendation maybe get them a bit higher. I think people like having them about .01-.05.
 
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I am pretty sure that all corals need some level of po4, I’ve never experienced my phosphates being 0 but I did experience my nitrates being 0. After they bottomed out my hammer was definitely upset. Just a small recommendation maybe get them a bit higher. I think people like having them about .01-.05.

It's very unlikely my Po4 is actually at zero. My recent ICP showed about .05.. There are fluctuations in the tank
 

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On the third picture you posted there looks like there's a big old flat worm in the crotch between two heads.

I normally don't advise people to move torches as they are very temperamental but I would pull this guy out and dip it.
 
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On the third picture you posted there looks like there's a big old flat worm in the crotch between two heads.

I normally don't advise people to move torches as they are very temperamental but I would pull this guy out and dip it.

I pulled it out yesterday and fragged off one of the dying heads and split the colony into two, each still has a dying head.

I also dipped it in coral RX and nothing came off of it.
 
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a photo I took during dipping after dragging one of the dying heads off. You can see the flesh peeling away from the underside
 
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