1 of 3 torches is not happy

[mumra]

WTF could be causing this? Could it just be "in a mood"?

 

[Cook]

How long has the torch been contracted?

 

[mumra]

How long has the torch been contracted?

A couple of weeks. I have a wall hammer that's retracted but I figured that was from my elevated nitrates. Here's the wall hammer. Everything else in my tank is fine or thriving.

 

[RyaLe]

Flesh band look nice so I think might be it try to split. Please check if your magnesium was low I aim for 1350 and above

 

[mumra]

Flesh band look nice so I think might be it try to split. Please check if your magnesium was low I aim for 1350 and above

Thanks but this guy died a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Justin Ranke]

Indonesian torches are notorious for doing this. I found the best thing to stop this from happening is a short iodine dip, and dosing Cipro to the tank for a few days. Havn't lost a single torch since I started dosing cipro.

My guess is the torch had some type of bacterial infection... very common especially with Indos, but what you need to look out for is it spreading to other nearby euphyllia. So next time this happens the quicker you can isolate and dip the better.

 

[mumra]

Indonesian torches are notorious for doing this. I found the best thing to stop this from happening is a short iodine dip, and dosing Cipro to the tank for a few days. Havn't lost a single torch since I started dosing cipro.

My guess is the torch had some type of bacterial infection... very common especially with Indos, but what you need to look out for is it spreading to other nearby euphyllia. So next time this happens the quicker you can isolate and dip the better.

It happened to a torch and a real hammer so that theory checks out