Losing Heads on Torch

[thirty5]

I have a torch with about 8 heads. I lost one completely and now 2 more are starting to go, they are all on one colony. But just realized that I am losing another single head different frag.

All Levels are fine, other thank Alk which may be a little low.

The torch was higher in the tank and flow is not really heavy. This same colony was in my nano with heavy flow and actually flourished. I fragged a couple heads and left them in they nano and they actually split already.

Any ideas why I could be losing it?

Salinty is .025
Amm: 0
Trates:0
Trites:0
Temp and PH are in my sig below.

Calcium was about 420 last check
Alk, i forget the reading but it may have been a little low

 

[marrone]

Is the head just falling off, basically breaking up or pushing off of the skeleton, or are the heads turning into like brown jelly? If it's the first thing then it's just something that seems to happen for no reason at all, and I'm going through it with a coral of hammers right now. The hammer/frogspawn will be fine, fully opened, and the conditions in the tank are great too, and then all of a sudden it will start but just as fast as it starts it stops.

 

[thirty5]

Actually neither. They are not turning into jelly, just seems that they recede and then disappear.

 

[bizarrecorals]

it happens with euphyllia species from time to time, especially wild ones.

they get stressed pretty easy from a lot of dif factors, temperature, lighting, placement, bad shipping, fluctuation of water perm. , change of environment, and where/when they've been collected. etc....

low alk is not good either, once when they start receding, is pretty difficult to cure, water change will help a bit

 

[thirty5]

I am just about to do a 30 gal change so maybe that will help.

What should alk be at???

 

[andylee]

Too Much or too little light?

 

[rrudo74901]

Alk between 8-11
Calc 420-480
Mag 1350-1450
Ph 8-8.4

 

[rrudo74901]

Alk between 8-11
Calc 420-480
Mag 1350-1450
Ph 8-8.4

 

[B.BASH]

Mine was receding i brought it back with reg feedings of oyster feast