Torch not doing well. Any ideas?

[Mike 1.025]

Can you get a clearer pic under white lights?

Also, no flesh band on the coral is not a good sign. If that is a flatworm, could be part of the issue.

It has moved round, so defo a flat worm. I have Seachem Coral dip so the torch will have a bath shortly .

 

[Mike 1.025]

it’s moved/moving

 

[mcarroll]

Wow. Seems huge – can't you just pick it off without disturbing the coral (even more)?

 

[Mike 1.025]

Wow. Seems huge – can't you just pick it off without disturbing the coral (even more)?

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I have given the coral a dip. Glad I did as there were more than 1!

 

[slingfox]

I have given the coral a dip. Glad I did as there were more than 1!

The risk you have now is spread of pests from the new torches to your other coral. Unless the new coral was very expensive I would just throw them out. If you plan to keep them you should plan to dip every week for 6-8 weeks straight.

If you don’t have any wrasse, you should consider adding some since they are great at keeping some pest population down.

 

[BryanM]

6 lines get a bad wrap but mine is great. Got him small. He's just a cruiser, and I assume he's doing a lot of what slingfox said above.

 

[Mike 1.025]

Update, coral has had two dips. 1st dip release two large flatworms, no eggs could be seen. 5 days later(yesterday) another dip included the green torch in the second dip to be prudent. I think you will agree there is definite improvement :)

 

[BryanM]

Awesome!