New torch coral doing so so...

[NMC]

I got a purple torch coral 2 days ago. It has 3 heads. 2 of them are open and fluttering about like they are supposed to. The third is sort of pathetic looking...half the polyps or so extend partially, the other 1/2 completely retracted.

Right now I have it down on the sand bed, medium flows. Just did actinics today, will start upping the lights slowly today. I can post a picture in the morning, but right now I'm not at home.

My tank is 3 months old. There is one firefish, 2 cleaner shrimp, assortment of snails, a duncan coral, a apple cap coral, a red montipora, a ricordia, two stylophora corals (one green, one rose), and 2 small birdsnest frags. All other corals are looking good.

I'm wondering why this one head is seeming to do poorly and what I should do about it, if anything.

Temp: 79.3
pH: 7.9
Alk: 6.5 today (dosing with Kent alk)
Ca: 460
Mg:1380
sg: 1.25
amonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 0

Thanks in advance

 

[willietang021]

Maybe some of your clean up crews are still cleaning it, and the corals doesn't like to be torch or bother too much. Wait for it for a couple more days, low-medium indirect flow for now. If the other two heads are doing fine, it might be because this head was some how or in some way damage while transport. Maybe it was laying at the bottom with the whole piece of coral's weight on top of it inside that plastic bag for that transporting time. That might created lots of stress or maybe even damged the coral's tissue.
Still wait a couple of days and see what happen. Even if this head is gone, torch coral are very hardy and can grow very fast. You might have double or triple the heads by year end even with just those two heads.

 

[NMC]

picture added

picture added

Sorry it's a little blurry....haven't really got the hang of photographing the reef yet.