Help! Torch coral dying

[maricelH]

Hi everyone, woke up this morning and found one head of a torch completely retracted. It was about half retracted yesterday. All other coral in tank seem fine and show no signs of stress or sickness. Afraid this could be something others could catch, but don’t want to pull plug to soon. Any suggestions? Think of pulling this whole torch out just in case. Really just want to know how common it is to lose something so quickly. I haven’t added anything new in a few weeks.

 

[bubbgee]

Alk is way too low and your cal is way too high. Not sure why or how you got those out of whack. Are you using 2 part or any dosing?

 

[maricelH]

Alk is way too low and your cal is way too high. Not sure why or how you got those out of whack. Are you using 2 part or any dosing?

Agreed, trying to bring the alk back up, normally try to keep it around 8.5 but something has been eating it up lately. I’ve had to dose more and more weekly to get it up and it’s still been falling. Calc being high I’ve had problems with. I don’t dose calc, only get it through weekly water changes. Only things I’m dosing right now is daily AB+ and alk when I test and it’s low.