Help! Goniopora dying?

Mikeand Mel

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I know these corals are notoriously hard to keep. I have had this coral for 4 months....it looked great!
Now all of a sudden it is not opening....I see a brown spot on it.
The only major change was shifting around other corals.
Is it possible my torch is doing this?
I have pics of the Goni now and proximity to torch.

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Are you sure that is not an Alevopora?
Looks over illuminated?
Are you feeding it?
Did you test the big 3 for chemistry?
Is flow too low or too high?
Th Euphyllia looks too far away to cause that much over all damage.
 
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Not positive its not Alevopora.
Been in same position for the whole time polyps had been 1 1/2"-2".
Fed once a week with Goniopowder.
I assume the big 3 is alk 140ppm, ca 420, salinity 1.026
maybe flow too low?
Just moved it to another spot away from torch.
 

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I have a small frag that looks very similar to yours. I have it on a ledge about 3 inches from the bottom of the tank that gets medium flow and they seem to be doing well.
 

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