My torch and frogspawn aren't doing too hot-- advice?

Porkibear

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I just relocated my tank from office to home, and I don't have room in the house to put the tank. I ended up putting the tank in my garage where I keep one car. I've had the tank in the garage now for about 2 weeks, and the corals have been doing awesome. The frogspawn and torch were completely extended and happy. I kept really close watch as far as water temps because of my car...unfortunately, for the first week the temps were above 90 degrees. I since added a fan blowing in the sump to cool the water, and now it's down to 87 degrees consistently.

The last two days I've noticed my torch has retracted quite a bit, and doesn't look too happy. I've been doing weekly water changes, and testing the water with my water test kit. Here are the results for the last two tests since my tank relocation:

1st week:

Salinity-- 1.025-1.026 (I thought this was kinda high so I started lowering it a bit)
Calcium-- 320ppm
KH-- 115
Phosphates-- 0
Nitrates-- 10

2nd week:

Salinity-- 1.023 (As I said, I lowered it with the last water change, which was about 4 days ago)
Calcium-- 320ppm
KH-- 125
Phosphates-- 0
Nitrates-- 10

I'm using a 4 stage RO/DI unit for my water, and mixing using salt mix. Any ideas?

Here are some pics of what it looked like last week (sorry, I don't have pictures of what they look like now):

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From my experience with frogspawn and torch, they don't do well with temp above 84. My air conditioner went out for a couple of days and the temp went up to 88 degree and i notice that both of them didn't open up. Most soft corals with wither away if consistently above 84 degree. Also, your calcium seems to be a little low. Should be aroung 420-460.
 
your frogspawn is bleached.. what kind of lighting system do you have? Also are you feeding your tank DTs? if not i would do so..
 
Frog and torch don't do well at higher temps, don't like softies (use carbon) and need calcium/alk/mg supplementation on a regular basis, however small the demand at first.
 
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