My Torch looks like a blob

[Bdroid]

My gold torch is losing it’s tentacles and starting to look like a blob...not exactly sure what’s wrong...Lighting? Alkalinity burn? Flow?

I recently did a dip in hoping to minimize any possible infection and water parameters seems ok and all my other corals seem to be doing fine...

Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Alkalinity 8.6
Magnesium 1380
Calcium 440
Salinity 1.026

 

[Hemmdog]

Did anything come off in the dip? Flatworms or anything?

 

[Bdroid]

Did anything come off in the dip? Flatworms or anything?

Didn’t notice any flatworms and I checked for eggs. Although there was a dark brownish worm like on it which I scraped off but other than that nothing...I don’t want to keep dipping it too and stress it out even more.

 

[Hemmdog]

Didn’t notice any flatworms and I checked for eggs. Although there was a dark brownish worm like on it which I scraped off but other than that nothing...I don’t want to keep dipping it too and stress it out even more.

Yea it could be possible you had a bristle worm making a little house inside your torch. I’ve had that happen when I leave mine on the sandbed. If it came out during you dip you might be in the clear. They take a few weeks to bounce back. Try to target feed it once it heals up more.

 

[Bdroid]

Yea it could be possible you had a bristle worm making a little house inside your torch. I’ve had that happen when I leave mine on the sandbed. If it came out during you dip you might be in the clear. They take a few weeks to bounce back. Try to target feed it once it heals up more.

What else can it be if the damage is not due to a bristle worm? I’m trying to cover as many other possibilities of the root cause. I moved the torch twice already from the first spot it was in, with a slightly strong flow thinking that was the issue...Although my T5 bulbs is a bit over due for new ones...would that be the cause?

 

[Hemmdog]

What else can it be if the damage is not due to a bristle worm? I’m trying to cover as many other possibilities of the root cause. I moved the torch twice already from the first spot it was in, with a slightly strong flow thinking that was the issue...Although my T5 bulbs is a bit over due for new ones...would that be the cause?

That looks pretty eaten. But get new bulbs yea lol. Flat worms are possible but if nothing came off then idk. I’d just observe it for a bit, low/medium flow, mid light.

 

[Bayareareefer18]

I had a torch looking sad and found out it had flatworms at night. Surprisingly when I dipped it it took some time for they to come out in coralRX. They were down in the skeleton.

I dipped it again recently and had quite a few more come out

 

[Bdroid]

I had a torch looking sad and found out it had flatworms at night. Surprisingly when I dipped it it took some time for they to come out in coralRX. They were down in the skeleton.

I dipped it again recently and had quite a few more come out

Oh wow! How long did you dip it for? How’s your torch right now?

 

[Bayareareefer18]

Oh wow! How long did you dip it for? How’s your torch right now?

Ten mins in coral RX. Usually most everything falls off instantly but these little buggers took several minutes to appear. The second time was faster and was surprised how many

 

[Bdroid]

Did a another dip recently and some light brown stuff came out after a light shake...I think it’s brown jelly disease ...