melting torch coral

[KENE]

I have what is looking like a melting torch coral. It seems the searcch funtion does not work unlesss you a premium member and i do not have pay pal. any ideas on this torch. my ph is 8.3 , hardness 240, no nitrites, no nitrate or ammonia. the coral did fine for a while then started turning whitish at the tips. I have moved it thinking to much light and to much current. Any solutions?

 

[Sk8r]

If you're keeping corals, try testing for alk, calcium, and magnesium. Those readings should be: 2.97, 400, and 1200, somewhere in that ballpark.
Also: if you have a leather upstream of an lps coral the coral will wilt or turn colors.

 

[DJ88©]

Kene,

I split out your post and reply. Very few would have found it where it was.

Cheers!

[moved]

 

[KENE]

how do i know where they reply? or are you going to tell me what they said?

 

[KENE]

oh figured it out. where the post is anyway. i cut of the melting legs and am waitng for the others to start. i have no leather corals

 

[fuzz1974]

What is about leathers that cause an LPS to wilt?

Fuzz

 

[InvertLover]

Fuzz,
Chemical warfare. The leather is attempting to remove compition from the area. Some corals are more likely to be affected then others. From reading and personal experience, I think some members of Euphyllia are among the most visably affected. I've also noticed some slowed growth rates. Running carbon can help remove the toxins from the water, and I've noticed that the corals can adapt, and "get along" to some degree. Now everything I add a coral to my tank, I activly run carbon for a few weeks, because my leather spikes the toxin output.

KEKE, can you post other parameters, those that sk8r asked for, and what livestock you have, how long it was in the tank, and anything else that you might think would be important? Thanks!

 

[Gundo5000]

My frogspawn killed my torch when I was out of town

Came home to just a skeleton.