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02-12-2007, 09:20 PM
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Underwater Coral Farmer
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I lost my head!
Well Im fine, but my torch isn't doing so well. The polyp began to recede, so I tried to re position it to get better light and feed it, but it only got worse. I have been reading that I my need to frag off the dead portion, but the heads are too close together to only remove one. Do I need to frag off the dead head and the live one it is attached to?
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02-12-2007, 09:24 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Feb 2004
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why did your frag die? If you found out why it died and addressed it the torch should be fine. Each head is different and when I bought mine one head was dead and the rest did fine.
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02-12-2007, 09:26 PM
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Underwater Coral Farmer
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I'm not sure why, I thought my angel was a suspect but she never goes near it.
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02-12-2007, 09:28 PM
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Underwater Coral Farmer
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my only thought was it wasnt getting enough flow or light. being on the bottom of the colony.
unless i dammaged it durring a cleaning.
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02-12-2007, 09:31 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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How warm is your tank? What is your SG and other levels? When was your last water change? I've had a similar problem before with LPS heads leaving the skeleton, it may be from a lack of strontium, which is replenished with regular water changes.
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02-12-2007, 09:33 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Feb 2004
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mine melted away because my salt was too low
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02-12-2007, 09:37 PM
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Shark
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I dropped a rock on a head of mine while cleaning... that'll do it...
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02-12-2007, 09:42 PM
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Shark
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jflip2002
I dropped a rock on a head of mine while cleaning... that'll do it...
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yep...that will, so will having your salt 1.019.... I droped my salt low after an episode of ich then forgot i dropped it when I introduced corals again. I lost about 300 dollars of coral before I realized I droped the salt 
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02-12-2007, 09:45 PM
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Underwater Coral Farmer
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mdcorcoran
How warm is your tank? What is your SG and other levels? When was your last water change? I've had a similar problem before with LPS heads leaving the skeleton, it may be from a lack of strontium, which is replenished with regular water changes.
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The head didn't fall off it withered away over a month.
Salinity=35%
Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate=0
Water change 1 week ago
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02-12-2007, 09:46 PM
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Shark
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what is 35% salinity??? I have only referred to it or seen it written in SG???
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02-12-2007, 09:47 PM
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Underwater Coral Farmer
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oh, and my hammer is doing great.
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02-12-2007, 10:14 PM
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The rest of the heads should be fine as long as you didn't notice any brown jelly like stuff. (that will spread and kill other heads) When I got my Torch I lost 2 heads but the rest are doing great I would just leave the Dead Head alone and not stress the coral anymore
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02-12-2007, 10:16 PM
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Shark
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Originally Posted by dobejazz
The rest of the heads should be fine as long as you didn't notice any brown jelly like stuff. (that will spread and kill other heads) When I got my Torch I lost 2 heads but the rest are doing great I would just leave the Dead Head alone and not stress the coral anymore
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ditto
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02-12-2007, 10:27 PM
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Underwater Coral Farmer
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1.025 SG ~35%Salinity
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02-12-2007, 10:28 PM
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Underwater Coral Farmer
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hopelully it was just me banging it or somthing. Thanks for the help guys I will let you know how it is doing.
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