Torch coral not opening fully

[sarahlovesfish]

I have had a small green torch coral for more than a month. During the first weeks I got it, it was doing fine. it was fully extended and happy. But I was moving the power head one day, it slowly closed up. it was probably too strong. I made it low, it still wasn't happy. Its been small for a while now. And yesterday I moved it to the sand bed on a rock. It still hasn't opened fully like it used to. Its getting direct light. And the flow ranges from low to medium waves. What should I do? I'm still learning about coral placement. the other corals are doing good.

 

[Usernam Invalid]

What are your tank pareters any pics. This will help ppl answer ur ques.

 

[sarahlovesfish]

haven't checked the paremeters yet, I will soon. I did noticed salt was a little low, so I rose it up to 1.025. And today it is a tad bit more opened, I still think the current is too strong at times, but not sure. it basically comes in waves of some medium turbulence. I am thinking of moving it away from the center , and more to the right. I also uploaded a video of it as well so you can see, still uploading. And what places are most torches happy?

 

[chrisfont23]

haven't checked the paremeters yet, I will soon. I did noticed salt was a little low, so I rose it up to 1.025. And today it is a tad bit more opened, I still think the current is too strong at times, but not sure. it basically comes in waves of some medium turbulence. I am thinking of moving it away from the center , and more to the right. I also uploaded a video of it as well so you can see, still uploading. And what places are most torches happy?

Think "gentle swaying in breeze" - low to medium indirect, irregular flow works best for mine.

 

[sarahlovesfish]

Think "gentle swaying in breeze" - low to medium indirect, irregular flow works best for mine.

that's a beautiful torch, I will try to find a softer calmer area. Definitely sounds like mine does have too much flow. I will probably move it somewhere again and see what happens

 

[chrisfont23]

I have 2 MP10s in a 90g on Reefcrest turned up about 5/8 of the way (or what amounts to a black mark I made on the controller, somewhere between halfway and a three quarters full).

Hope that helps.

 

[sarahlovesfish]

tried putting it in a different area, can't find any good spots that would be able to be seen. I am starting to wonder if my rockscaping has something to do with it. I have a long 80 gallon with colum, pillar rocks in the middle. Some piles in the back and sides. When I place it near the bottom, water sweeps it up from underneath from the other powerhead. Really frustrating. Heres the link to the
video of the torch coral

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA-8jlM8geM

 

[RLM60]

What kind of light are you using and what are your levels? I saw your video and that torch looks bleached to me.

 

[sarahlovesfish]

the torch is a lot greener in person, the video does not capture it's color very well. And its is under 2 rows of lights. Both from marine land. One is reef LEDs with blue and white lighting. The other is a weaker light, which I believe is a LED as well. Together the tank basically looks like daylight when on full intensity. Right now I just have the actinic lighting and full light in the weaker one.
And about parameters, I checked about a month ago, everything was completely normal and clean.

 

[RLM60]

I never posted a picture before so I don't know if this worked lol...but your flow looks fine to me. It might just take a few days for it to adjust. I have a mixed tank(75gal) with tons of flow(5000gph and that don't include my tunze nano wavemaker) and I have AI sol blue leds so I have to keep mine on the sandbed also. Torches can be somewhat finicky compared to other euphillia.

 

[sarahlovesfish]

very pretty torch. Thanks for the info, I will give it some time.