Torch Bailing Out or Recovering?

[kornface13]

I went on vacation for 7 days and came back to one of my torches doing quite poorly. It has two heads, and the head closest to my frogspawn was all deflated and none of the tentacles extended. Parts of some of the tentacles even look black. where maybe they're dying.

Water parameters were all good, with Nitrates a little high. I honestly can't tell from this Salifert test kit if they're 25 or 50, but they're somewhere in between.

Params:
Alk: 8.6
PH: 8.2
Salinity: 1.025
Nitrates: 25-50
Phosphates: 0.16
Mag: 1350
Calc: 400

I swapped the position of the two torches to see if one improves and the other declines. I've never seen them actually touch the frogspawn (I do check in the middle of the night multiple times (everything is all retracted at night and nowhere near as close as they are during the day when fully extended).

In the video you can see how the right side head on the green torch is all unhappy. Some of the tentacles are starting to fluff up and come out, so I'm hoping this will recover, but I wanted to ask what you all think. Recovering or probably losing this head?

One more question.... For those with booming tanks and lots of euphalia, do they always SIGNIFICANTLY retract at night, or just when things aren't going well? I can see the skeleton on the torches heads at night because they go so far in. Not sure if that's a sign of stress or if completely normal.

EDIT: Imgur is probably better than an attachment, so heres that:

 

[Uncle99]

Not seeing a pic

 

[kornface13]

Not seeing a pic

Sorry, video, not pic. Its attached to the post.

EDIT: Uploaded it to imgur as well.

 

[Uncle99]

Certainly not bailed or bailing
Mine looks like that from time to time for years, I think they get bumped by fish.

I can see nothing to concern me, parameters fine.

Mine 50% retract when light ramps down, 90% in dark.

Hate to be moved

 

[kornface13]

Certainly not bailed or bailing
Mine looks like that from time to time for years, I think they get bumped by fish.

I can see nothing to concern me, parameters fine.

Mine 50% retract when light ramps down, 90% in dark.

Hate to be moved

Awesome. Thanks for the info. Thats very reassuring. I would hate for my only coral loss to be my most expensive coral. lol. I'll keep watching it and let it do it's thing.

 

[Uncle99]

Awesome. Thanks for the info. Thats very reassuring. I would hate for my only coral loss to be my most expensive coral. lol. I'll keep watching it and let it do it's thing.

Give it 24hours to return.
Do you have any crabs or shrimp?
If so, watch them especially if you target feed.

 

[kornface13]

Give it 24hours to return.
Do you have any crabs or shrimp?
If so, watch them especially if you target feed.

No. Just two clowns, a firefish, and some snails.

 

[Uncle99]

No. Just two clowns, a firefish, and some snails.

Keep an eye on clowns, they can rub a torch, when attempting to use it as a host, very common.

 

[kornface13]

Keep an eye on clowns, they can rub a torch, when attempting to use it as a host, very common.

Heres a current video. Not sure why this cloudy looking stuff is.....hopefully not brown jelly disease? Mouth is pretty open on the other head and tentacles are somewhat retracted.

 

[kornface13]

Well I tried turkey basting it off. I'm pretty sure thats just the inside of my coral and I just made it a touch worse. I'm officially leaving it alone now and not messing with it any further.

 

[randomfishdude]

Bjd. Turn off your flow and get that coral out

 

[randomfishdude]

Well I tried turkey basting it off. I'm pretty sure thats just the inside of my coral and I just made it a touch worse. I'm officially leaving it alone now and not messing with it any further.

You just screwed your other euphillia

 

[JonoH]

How new is your tank?
Looking at the rock it looks fairly new.

 

[Bitter old man]

Bjd. Turn off your flow and get that coral out

nope.

 

[Bitter old man]

You just screwed your other euphillia

Also nope.

 

[randomfishdude]

nope.

Then what is it? It ain't pooping

 

[kornface13]

How new is your tank?
Looking at the rock it looks fairly new.

Its only two months old. I probably jumped the gun on corals, but I test literally everyday (except when I went on vacation) and parameters are very stable with the exception of nitrates which are a touch high.

 

[Bitter old man]

Then what is it? It ain't pooping

And it ain’t brown.

 

[DangerDave]

It's still bacterial. If you have cipro I'd crush a 500mg tablet into 50ml RO water and use a 1ml pipette to blow a few mls directly into that mess after suctioning that stuff off. Then dose the whole tank 10ml a day for a few days, keeping the skimmer off for a couple hours after. Good luck man, it's never a fun run with bjd.

 

[JonoH]

Its only two months old. I probably jumped the gun on corals, but I test literally everyday (except when I went on vacation) and parameters are very stable with the exception of nitrates which are a touch high.

Looks bacterial to me, i had something similar happen to all my hammers and torches a few months back.
Was like BJD but with no brown jelly - unfortunately i lost all mine, if i were you i would pull the ones affected straight away before they affect the others.
It seems to spread from head to head...