I’m just lost with this torch coral

[txmaverickmh]

Good Morning reefers,

I cannot get my brain wrapped around this torch, just went to crap in the last two days?

Any expert thought on if and how I can save it?

Salinity 1.025
Nitrates 7.8
Phosphates 0.14
Ph 8.13
Temp 78.6
Alk 9.45
Calcium 480
Mag 1395

Looked like this on Thursday:

This morning looks like this:

I was in with red flash light last night, nothing picking on it, all looked peaceful, just can’t figure it out!

For reference of tank health, here are pics of other torch and wellyso directly below troubled torch:

 

[CasperOe]

I am sorry to hear you're struggling, lost a very expensive torch myself really to brown jelly decease which, unless I am mistaken could very well be what you're struggling with here.

I may very well have misinterpreted the picture- and I hope I have because BJA is really hard to deal with and I am unsure of a way to a really have your lovely torch. It happens fast!

Had it been a coral with more heads, you could have fragged it and saved the healthy part. You're not that lucky here!

I'll tag along here, see what the pros have to say to your torch - and indeed the one i don't have anymore.

 

[twentyleagues]

Its hard to tell from the pic but did that fragged spot cut into the flesh band below the tentacles on those heads?

 

[reefadam]

KFC Dip I along with many others have had great success with this dip, I’ve seen it bring back corals that looked worse than yours. Getting all the ingredients in time is the only tricky part, but this dip really is a game changer. Good luck!

 

[Rjukan]

Off topic, but your rock is very interesting looking. The colors are so pretty, but the rock itself seems very smooth.. where is it from?

 

[txmaverickmh]

Its hard to tell from the pic but did that fragged spot cut into the flesh band below the tentacles on those heads?

That’s a good insight, but it has been flourishing in tank for over 3 weeks until the last 48 hours

 

[Fishn28]

That’s a good insight, but it has been flourishing in tank for over 3 weeks until the last 48 hours

Dip it, it could be flat worms that are too small to see that are blocking light from getting to the coral

edit- they also don’t like flow that much, I’m not sure how much yours get but I know mine only like enough to gently move their tentacles, just a thought

 

[twentyleagues]

That’s a good insight, but it has been flourishing in tank for over 3 weeks until the last 48 hours

Ah ok I thought youd only had it a couple of days. Probably not that then.

 

[kevgib67]

KFC Dip I along with many others have had great success with this dip, I’ve seen it bring back corals that looked worse than yours. Getting all the ingredients in time is the only tricky part, but this dip really is a game changer. Good luck!

I have a shoebox marked KFC with all the ingredients in it and ready to go at a moment’s notice. I hope I never need it but I think everyone with the corals should have it on hand. A lot of the ingredients are sourced from different places.

 

[kevgib67]

It definitely looks like it is splitting, mine get grumpy right before, during and shortly after a split. Fingers crossed. Your parameters look good, I don’t see a problem there.

 

[txmaverickmh]

Off topic, but your rock is very interesting looking. The colors are so pretty, but the rock itself seems very smooth.. where is it from?

It’s Carib Sea dry rock