Advice for my new Torch please!

[Jakejtown]

Hello.
We purchased A torch from a neighboring city LFS. It looked beautiful, when we got home we dipped it in Coral RX and placed him in our tank down low and in an area with low/med flow for him to acclimate. Next day he was half open but looking pretty good. Today I feel like he is a goner. I’m posting pictures but he is white and where his green color polyps were is black. I thought it was something black on it so I gently used a blaster to clean it off and black stringy slime came out.
So what did I do wrong?

Temp 78.8
Alk 8.7
Ca 480
Mag 1080
nitrates 0
Do not know PHosphate as I’m waiting on more reagent to be delivered.
Right now this tank is mixes lps and sps. We also purchased an Elegance coral and it seems happy. It’s extended and open but maybe a little floppy?? Also a few days before this purchase we added a Duncan and it seems happy as well.

Everything else looks great. Thank you for your help/advice

 

[eliaslikesfish]

nitrates at zero is a lil concerning

 

[TheGrimReeferTx]

nitrates at zero is a lil concerning

Mag is low also, but would zero nitrates kill it that fast?

 

[eliaslikesfish]

Mag is low also, but would zero nitrates kill it that fast?

yeah that’s the only thing that makes me question it, usually a coral doesn’t just die overnight

 

[eliaslikesfish]

was thinking… euphyllia eating flatworms could kill overnight right? how is your lighting?

 

[Ben's Pico Reefing]

It may have picked up brown jelly diseases since you stated you blew black stringy stuff from it and rest of corals are ok. This was probably from the last and just started when you got it. The stress during its move and new tank even dip probably stressed it further. Things like this happen. If it is, I would isolate the coral from display.

 

[TheGrimReeferTx]

It may have picked up brown jelly diseases since you stated you blew black stringy stuff from it and rest of corals are ok. This was probably from the last and just started when you got it. The stress during its move and new tank even dip probably stressed it further. Things like this happen. If it is, I would isolate the coral from display.

I second this.

 

[Ben's Pico Reefing]

I second this.

Should be "probably from the lfs" must have auto corrected when I typed it lol

 

[Jakejtown]

It may have picked up brown jelly diseases since you stated you blew black stringy stuff from it and rest of corals are ok. This was probably from the last and just started when you got it. The stress during its move and new tank even dip probably stressed it further. Things like this happen. If it is, I would isolate the coral from display.

Thank you. By isolate do you mean it might have a chance to recover? Or isolate as in dispose because it’s DOA?

 

[Jakejtown]

It may have picked up brown jelly diseases since you stated you blew black stringy stuff from it and rest of corals are ok. This was probably from the last and just started when you got it. The stress during its move and new tank even dip probably stressed it further. Things like this happen. If it is, I would isolate the coral from display.

So if it is brown jelly disease then have I infected my whole tank? What is the remedy?

 

[Ben's Pico Reefing]

So if it is brown jelly disease then have I infected my whole tank? What is the remedy?

Just isolate in a bowl with air pump on a piece of rubble. It may recover but the looks of it I wouldn't get hopes up. But things do happen. We don't know 100 percent if it is. Could be just the sludge of the coral itself or waste but even if it is, doesn't mean anything may be effected. But removing is the safest bet and can use a cylinder container and air pump with control valve to control flow if you want to try.

There are lots of threads on here about this. I am not experienced with this but had it wipe out some of mine in past.

 

[Jakejtown]

Just isolate in a bowl with air pump on a piece of rubble. It may recover but the looks of it I wouldn't get hopes up. But things do happen. We don't know 100 percent if it is. Could be just the sludge of the coral itself or waste but even if it is, doesn't mean anything may be effected. But removing is the safest bet and can use a cylinder container and air pump with control valve to control flow if you want to try.

There are lots of threads on here about this. I am not experienced with this but had it wipe out some of mine in past.

Thank you

 

[JayM]

So if it is brown jelly disease then have I infected my whole tank? What is the remedy?

I lost one to BJD 4-5 months ago. Pretty easy to confirm. Just pull it out and smell it. If it makes you want to gag, it’s BJD. Was only a few days from first symptoms to nothing but skeleton. It did not affect any other corals - even those that were in close proximity. I didn’t do a ton of research on treatment, but what I did find would have cost as much or more than it would have to replace the torch and no guarantee that treatment would even be successful.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hello.
We purchased A torch from a neighboring city LFS. It looked beautiful, when we got home we dipped it in Coral RX and placed him in our tank down low and in an area with low/med flow for him to acclimate. Next day he was half open but looking pretty good. Today I feel like he is a goner. I’m posting pictures but he is white and where his green color polyps were is black. I thought it was something black on it so I gently used a blaster to clean it off and black stringy slime came out.
So what did I do wrong?

Temp 78.8
Alk 8.7
Ca 480
Mag 1080
nitrates 0
Do not know PHosphate as I’m waiting on more reagent to be delivered.
Right now this tank is mixes lps and sps. We also purchased an Elegance coral and it seems happy. It’s extended and open but maybe a little floppy?? Also a few days before this purchase we added a Duncan and it seems happy as well.

Everything else looks great. Thank you for your help/advice

Best location - upper part of tank opposed to sand bed and medium-high flow and moderate light. This one is very receded

 

[VintageReefer]

Black stringy stuff sounds like it was excreting waste. Torches often are closed up after a good meal / expelling waste.

Out of your parameters I don’t see anything they would kill a torch in 2 days.

Stress however can cause very quick damage. The coral rx dip is safe but might have irritated it.

Strange as it sounds…give the torch a good smell. If it smells like rotting milk or rotting eggs…it’s a goner and should be thrown out. Smells like fish or the ocean then it’s still ok

Small torches can completely retract into the skeleton, so it might just be stressed from transport / dip / placement moved in the tank

 

[Jakejtown]

Black stringy stuff sounds like it was excreting waste. Torches often are closed up after a good meal / expelling waste.

Out of your parameters I don’t see anything they would kill a torch in 2 days.

Stress however can cause very quick damage. The coral rx dip is safe but might have irritated it.

Strange as it sounds…give the torch a good smell. If it smells like rotting milk or rotting eggs…it’s a goner and should be thrown out. Smells like fish or the ocean then it’s still ok

Small torches can completely retract into the skeleton, so it might just be stressed from transport / dip / placement moved in the tank

Okay we will give it a whiff!

 

[Reef.]

Sorry to say but that looks totally dead to me, no coming back from that, if you can not see any flesh inside then its gone.

Yes your parameters look a little off, especially magnesium, but that could be a testing error and unlikely to kill a torch so fast, probably was the shipping then adding to maybe a tank with not the best parameters tipped it over the edge.

Don’t be too disappointed as torches are not the easiest to keep, even though the information out there seems to suggest they are a good safe coral, they can be very tricky and this will not be your last torch that dies.