Need help with torch coral

[Kanglee00]

Hello, I have a new torch coral that I bought from my LFS about 3 days ago and after the first day I noticed the 2 heads in the center were not looking well.

I thought maybe it was getting too much flow so I moved it down to the sandbed, but I could see the skeleton on the 2 heads in the middle and some of the tissue looked damaged.

As I was observing how it was doing in its new spot I saw my yellowtail damsel come and take a bite of some of the polyps and after spitting it out briefly it swallowed the piece and went back for more.

I was able to catch the damsel and will be taking him to the LFS, but I was surprised to see this happen as I was under the impression it was a reef safe fish. I now suspect that it was the cause if the damage to this coral or am I being paranoid?

This is how the torch looks now, I hope the other heads are okay as I really like this coral.

Any suggestions on how I can help it recover?

 

[E Rosewater]

I am no expert but have a few torches in my tank, the two that are in higher flow are more open. Of course I wouldn't go too high as Euphylia can be damaged, but my torches seem to like higher flow than my hammers and quite a bit more than my frogspawns.

 

[Reefing21715]

i have several torches and 2 yellow demsels and never have a problem.what i can say is demsels like to eat the corals that are about to die they will not kill the corals but they will eat them when they start to die i will guess you coral was sick on the store or it got stress and 2 heads die

 

[Kanglee00]

The torch looked fine at the store, It didn't start to look bad until a day after I got it home. I am going to check my parameters anyway, but I got rid if the damsel just to be safe.