will hurt tentacles on torches die/bleach and be replaced with new ones or will they recover?

[leonardomanzano]

My clownfish made base in one of my torches a while back (1 month) I removed the clownfish and now the torch is being left alone, I did this about 2 weeks ago and I noticed that the curled/damaged tentacles are now turning a whiter green/bleaching. How should I go about this? what should I do if even the healthy tentacles start bleaching? I got this torch about 4 months ago.

most of the damage is in the center all the tentacles in the outer part are extending normally.

 

[Payedjay]

Bleaching could be your alk what’s your parameters

 

[leonardomanzano]

Bleaching could be your alk what’s your parameters

425 calcium
1275 magnesium
10.1 alk
nitrate 0.3ppm
phosphate 0.03

I have a bottle of neonitro , I dose 60mL of it and test my nitrates the next day and they still come in under 5ppm.
as of right now I have 1 clown, 1 banghaii cardinal, 1 wrasse.
I have a protein skimmer and a 3 gallon refugium.
the refugium is packed but not too packed.
is a 3 gallon container of chaeto actually capable of eating up 10ppm of NO3 over night?
I have 60 gallons of total water volume

 

[jaime31]

Hey hope it’s not too late… my recommendations

raise the mag by a lot!! I keep mine between 1400-1600

I would ditch the chaeto it sucks nutrients out
that the lps’s need. the skimmer has to be tweaked Lps’s like dirty water and the skimmer is also exporting nutrients. I got my skimmer and I let the spillage run back into the water through the drain hose. Don’t remove it from the sump though because it helps a ton with aeration which also helps with keeping the ph up

do those things and you’ll see that the nitrates won’t drop after dosing.

Phosphates are perfect at .03