Patience or change for torch

[promotheus2070]

Hi reefers ,

Since 4 days i have a torch in my system with 3 heads , only after a day it seems 1 head wont fully extend anymore .
There werent any big changes in the system apart from a minor change in flow route .

Where i got it from has a higher dkh , al the rest of parameters the same .

My parameters as followed '
PH - 8.45
KH - 8.9
Ca - 430
MG - 1350
Salinity - 1.025-1.026
Po4 - 0.03
No3 - 15 ppm
Degrees celcius - 24.5

I did filter shortly over gfo an carbon , i am dosing smal portions of jodium/iodine and manganese to replenish what was lost due to carbon filtering .

What would be the better choice , some patience or some change in placement or any other ?

Thx


I refer to a video of the torch for reference .




Thanks in advance .

 

[Doctorgori]

that’s pretty far from panic…some of mine I’ve received show some skeleton for a days , that’s when I become concerned
….Id leave it alone

 

[skey44]

It looks like good flow for it and the other two heads seem happy. I wouldn’t make any adjustments and observe for 24 hours as long as nothing catastrophic seemed to be happening. Then I’d reassess from there.

It is pretty high up on your rocks. How does the previous lighting compare? Maybe it’s a little upset due to new flow pattern, maybe it’s adjusting to new lighting. Maybe that head got some minor injury in mounting or transport. Doesn’t look like there’s anything wrong in your pic per se.

 

[promotheus2070]

It looks like good flow for it and the other two heads seem happy. I wouldn’t make any adjustments and observe for 24 hours as long as nothing catastrophic seemed to be happening. Then I’d reassess from there.

It is pretty high up on your rocks. How does the previous lighting compare? Maybe it’s a little upset due to new flow pattern, maybe it’s adjusting to new lighting. Maybe that head got some minor injury in mounting or transport. Doesn’t look like there’s anything wrong in your pic per se.

As i did not yet used a par meter i cannot talk in specific numbers of the lighting .
I can tell i am using 2x red sea 90's at 75% blue / 20 % white ramping up and down for a period of 11 hours .

So i conclusion would be patience for now .

 

[promotheus2070]

As for an update ,
Today i have seen a better polyp extention , about 25% more than day's before . Little bit later it retracted itself again for the rest of the day .
I did check on it when light were out and i did notice skeleton ...

Dont know if its still normal behavour and ill update tommorow again when lights are on .

 

[promotheus2070]

This is it as for today .
Can we still put this behaviour in the safe category ?

Thanks in advance.

 

[promotheus2070]

This is it as for today .
Can we still put this behaviour in the safe category ?

Thanks in advance.

I do see beter polyp extention , not fully out but better . The extention changes during the day , i see towards evening when there are more blue's hes getting back to closed up almost and during night skeleton visible .

 

[skey44]

It’s looking better to me. I’d personally stay the course and keep watching for another day.