Torch shrivelled up

[Dave1993]

so got a torch 2 days ago params are
8.4 alk
1.025 salinity
469 calcium
phosphate 0.1-0.2
nitrate 50 <--- not sure if this is a false reading of nitrite cause i have done MANY water changes and it just keeps going up i have 0 fish i don't feed the tank
mag like 1300-1400

tank is 3 months old doing a water change very soon just need it too heat up

it was big and bushy when i got it and yesterday but today its refusing to open up

 

[Ben.QLD2]

Light too strong perhaps. Try a darker area or lower down in the tank. Do you have any other livestock (coral/inverts) in the tank?

 

[Dave1993]

Light too strong perhaps. Try a darker area or lower down in the tank. Do you have any other livestock (coral/inverts) in the tank?

1 snail the light is a ai prime currently on 50% acclimation mode so light is at like 35-40%

 

[Ben.QLD2]

Go lower intensity and make sure the spectrum is where it should be.

What's the pH and ammonia levels?

 

[Dave1993]

Go lower intensity and make sure the spectrum is where it should be.

What's the pH and ammonia levels?

ammonia 0
can't find my hanna PH monitor but i tested with api and its 8

 

[Dave1993]

just done a 10 litre water change in 40 litre tank see if that helps

 

[Ben.QLD2]

I still think light, but it is a very young tank too so parameters may not be fully stable yet.

 

[Dave1993]

I still think light, but it is a very young tank too so parameters may not be fully stable yet.

ill try lowering the light

 

[Dave1993]

it might be flow put my mp10 to 100% in fluval evo 13.5 now see if that helps

 

[Dave1993]

also turned lights down by 10%

 

[Dave1993]

its coming back out now thanks for the help think it was the flow

 

[LordofCinder]

what size is your tank? do you have other corals? How are they doing?

What kind of test kit are you using?

Phosphate is very high, and you need to find out whats up with your nitrate. Other parameters look good, but stability is most important, its hard to have stability in a new tank. If parameters change, corals close up.

3 months is still pretty new, and torch is not a coral I would suggest for new tanks, they can be very sensative.

 

[Dave1993]

what size is your tank? do you have other corals? How are they doing?

What kind of test kit are you using?

Phosphate is very high, and you need to find out whats up with your nitrate. Other parameters look good, but stability is most important, its hard to have stability in a new tank. If parameters change, corals close up.

3 months is still pretty new, and torch is not a coral I would suggest for new tanks, they can be very sensative.

my params are stable yeah idk what is wrong with the nitrate i had quite abit of algae turned the lights off for a black out and it all died so that maybe has something to do with it can't do anything about the phosphate it is leeching out my rocks and just goes back up water changes do not help with phosphate i was running phosguard nitrates are down to 41 now after the water change so i guess ill keep doing them to get it down i am using hanna test kits for everything i hate colour charts they r crap

i test every day and params are always spot on never fluctuate and this is my only coral