Torch coral skeleton showing

[olaywolay]

Had this torch for about a month, havent been dosing, been keeping up with weekly 10% water changes yet to do one this week.
noticed the skeleton showing about 3 days ago and its got worse yet tentacles seem fine?

 

[Marine Betta]

Had this torch for about a month, havent been dosing, been keeping up with weekly 10% water changes yet to do one this week.
noticed the skeleton showing about 3 days ago and its got worse yet tentacles seem fine?

Sorry, I’m not 100% sure what I’m looking at. Do you have a picture of the torch from when you first got it? When you say that the skeleton is showing, do you mean the flesh band has receded? Or that you can see the base of the coral because it’s not fully extending? I see polyp extension which is positive. Please post your parameters as well.

 

[olaywolay]

Had this torch for about a month, havent been dosing, been keeping up with weekly 10% water changes yet to do one this week.
noticed the skeleton showing about 3 days ago and its got worse yet tentacles seem fine?

Sorry, I’m not 100% sure what I’m looking at. Do you have a picture of the torch from when you first got it? When you say that the skeleton is showing, do you mean the flesh band has receded? Or that you can see the base of the coral because it’s not fully extending? I see polyp extension which is positive. Please post your parameters as well.

this is the best photo i have of it really, apologies, what i mean is where there was brown on the skeleton, it is now white

if you zoom in you can just about see the sort of ‘protective’ later that has now been pushed back, if you mean the flesh band that looks fine the one sitting just below the tentacles, im also awaiting all my salifert test kits, only parameters i can give are ammonia, salinity, pH, nitrite, nitrate, but happy to give them if would help

 

[Marine Betta]

Had this torch for about a month, havent been dosing, been keeping up with weekly 10% water changes yet to do one this week.
noticed the skeleton showing about 3 days ago and its got worse yet tentacles seem fine?

Sorry, I’m not 100% sure what I’m looking at. Do you have a picture of the torch from when you first got it? When you say that the skeleton is showing, do you mean the flesh band has receded? Or that you can see the base of the coral because it’s not fully extending? I see polyp extension which is positive. Please post your parameters as well.

this is the best photo i have of it really, apologies, what i mean is where there was brown on the skeleton, it is now white

if you zoom in you can just about see the sort of ‘protective’ later that has now been pushed back, if you mean the flesh band that looks fine the one sitting just below the tentacles, im also awaiting all my salifert test kits, only parameters i can give are ammonia, salinity, pH, nitrite, nitrate, but happy to give them if would help

Please share those parameters and post the results of the salifert tests. The base turning white isn’t a bad thing. That was algae which has now died or been eaten by your CUC. It’s hard to tell from that first picture, but I might see minor recession in the flesh band. Let’s see what the water parameters look like. Did you dip this coral before placing it in the DT?

 

[LiP]

If this is tissue recession, the most possible reason is wrong water parameters or water stability issue.

 

[Kiwi reefer]

Torches are a tough corals. Can you tell us what your paramters are?