Torch Coral curled up polyps

[shivamerlin]

Hello reefers,

I've got a torch coral about a year ago and a few months ago it started to curl up it's polyps.
I put it from the upper area in the tank (180 PAR) down to the sand (about 110 PAR) a few weeks ago and lowered the flow but as you can see in the picture after all the changes the polyps are still curled up.

Here are my current water levels which have been pretty stable:

Salinity 1.025
Alkalinity 8.9
Calcium 400
Magnesium 1400
Nitrate 8.9
Nitrite 0.0
pH 8.14
Phosphate 0.08


This is a current picture:

This picture was taken late 2021

I know, it's hard to believe that we are looking at the same coral.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hello reefers,

I've got a torch coral about a year ago and a few months ago it started to curl up it's polyps.
I put it from the upper area in the tank (180 PAR) down to the sand (about 110 PAR) a few weeks ago and lowered the flow but as you can see in the picture after all the changes the polyps are still curled up.

Here are my current water levels which have been pretty stable:

Salinity 1.025
Alkalinity 8.9
Calcium 400
Magnesium 1400
Nitrate 8.9
Nitrite 0.0
pH 8.14
Phosphate 0.08


This is a current picture:

This picture was taken late 2021

I know, it's hard to believe that we are looking at the same coral.

They require calcium of st least 380 and medium light and water flow
Avoid extreme light and water flow and feed it mysis shrimp 2-3x a week