Torches are Dying

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[DanielJameS]

Same thing happened to me about 6 months ago. I lost all my euphylias except one green/green frogspawn which hung on and a purple tipped torch that was totally unphased. Heads were popping off left and right. No rhyme or reason to it, nutrients were almost identical to yours. Ironically I’ve stopped chasing the numbers, my NO3 and PO4 are higher than they were and the remaining euphylias seem to be bouncing back. I have no idea what the problem was, I chalked it up to brown jelly. Had a couple awesome pieces, a teal hammer, orange/pink FS and a huge purple tipped FS all kick the bucket, totally blows

 

[kristian.U27]

Something has happened in my tank. my two torch corals have both been losing heads lately. They were doing incredible and then what seemed like all of the sudden, the massive 10 head one lost three heads. the small one I got at the frag swap is gone. both heads. they just went up in a brown slimy mess. Not quite brown jelly like but similar. I fragged up the largest one to try and save what I could. all other Euphelia and SPS in the tank look amazing. frogspawns are massive. Derasa clam looks fantastic. zoanthids are happy.

Salinty is spot on 35ppt. po4 is .10, nitrates were 5ppm. ph is good, alk was 158ppm. I havent checked the calcium but will tonight. im just at a loss here.

It happened to my holy grail today all the other torches are fine, when I put it in last night it opened up then in the morning he was melting away only him