Hi all,hope all is well.
I bought the purple tentacle torch 4 days ago ,I asked lfs guy to lift it up and see all flesh still in tact and all looked well with it,which it did.it was next to some green torches and pinkish torches.
Got packed just simply in a bag of water and once home dipped it then put into tank ( 30 minute drive) straight away as put in tank I noticed bit of flesh looked missing/ slightly coming away from Skelton so turned the torch around so less flow on that side.
Today wake up and lights come on and see my other 2 torches open as normal but new torch flesh ripped away and tentacles half ripped off and looks like dark brown on some the polyps.
I've read some threads on bjd and states act fast and get affected coral out tank ,problem is no qt tank so would need to throw away completely,
I put in container abd blew all loose polyps off and placed back in dt.
You think stress of being in bag and rubbing on flesh as its moving around caused flesh to rip then whatever this bjd is kicked in ?
Any future corals I buy I will be taking my own plastic cup and elastic band and bagging it myself so coral can't rub on nothing.
Parameters just because most ask ^_^
P04= 0.1
Calcium 440
Mag= 1260
Nitrates 40
Ph 8.1
Alk 7.7
Not tested amnonia or nitrites in long time
Sg= 1.026 stable
Temp 78 stable
Did feed torch little brine shrimp last night ( 3rd day ) maybe shouldn't target fed it so soon also .
Torch is back in dt now and retracted alot.
Video took just after spinning coral around to get look at why tentacles not coming out properley so even more closed up than it was .
So big question is what to do ?
Keep in dt or bin it ?
Will tag @Mibu @taricha
Tank been up around d 9 months
55 seconds- 1.07 mark in video it's dark brown but looks like inside one of the polyps like maybe zooantheli or however you spell it idk lol
I bought the purple tentacle torch 4 days ago ,I asked lfs guy to lift it up and see all flesh still in tact and all looked well with it,which it did.it was next to some green torches and pinkish torches.
Got packed just simply in a bag of water and once home dipped it then put into tank ( 30 minute drive) straight away as put in tank I noticed bit of flesh looked missing/ slightly coming away from Skelton so turned the torch around so less flow on that side.
Today wake up and lights come on and see my other 2 torches open as normal but new torch flesh ripped away and tentacles half ripped off and looks like dark brown on some the polyps.
I've read some threads on bjd and states act fast and get affected coral out tank ,problem is no qt tank so would need to throw away completely,
I put in container abd blew all loose polyps off and placed back in dt.
You think stress of being in bag and rubbing on flesh as its moving around caused flesh to rip then whatever this bjd is kicked in ?
Any future corals I buy I will be taking my own plastic cup and elastic band and bagging it myself so coral can't rub on nothing.
Parameters just because most ask ^_^
P04= 0.1
Calcium 440
Mag= 1260
Nitrates 40
Ph 8.1
Alk 7.7
Not tested amnonia or nitrites in long time
Sg= 1.026 stable
Temp 78 stable
Did feed torch little brine shrimp last night ( 3rd day ) maybe shouldn't target fed it so soon also .
Torch is back in dt now and retracted alot.
Video took just after spinning coral around to get look at why tentacles not coming out properley so even more closed up than it was .
So big question is what to do ?
Keep in dt or bin it ?
Will tag @Mibu @taricha
Tank been up around d 9 months
55 seconds- 1.07 mark in video it's dark brown but looks like inside one of the polyps like maybe zooantheli or however you spell it idk lol
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