Help! Goniopora dying?

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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.
 
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.
 
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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