Torch turned white:(

[ZANYMASTER]

It may be the sudden salinity change(.024 )or some other imbalance but my parms are good and lighting is good.Any ideas to bring it back to it's nice color?Can my clown stress it out?

 

[BrooklynsReefMan1]

wait it changed .024?!?!?! cant be you mean 1.024 is your current salinity

 

[nanoreefer22]

ZANY,

Where was your SG before? And how fast did it change? How long was to torch in your tank? Did it completely bleach or did it partially bleach?

If everything else in the tank is fine, I would just leave it alone. If you don't feed it already that could help.

I had a hammer bleach on me almost completely when I changed from a 29g to a 40g and actually come really close to death, as it started to receed. This was on all three heads I have, I just glued it down in a low flow, moderately lit place in the tank and it's recovering nicely. It opens fully again and the color is almost all back.

Hope this helps

 

[ZANYMASTER]

1.023 was my SG level.It's completely white but still alive.What's the best thing to feed it?I thought they mostly rely on light?

 

[nanoreefer22]

I feed my tank, not specifically coral. Every 3 or so days I put in a dime to nickel sized amount of cyclopeeze and the LPS seem to love it.

I don't think a jump that little would cause it to bleach. Is anything bothering it? I'd just leave it where it is, if it was happy there for a while. Monitor it and look for little traces of color to start coming back. Once it's opening I wouldn't worry much. It's gonna take a lot of time but the color should come back, if nothing else seems wrong.

 

[ZANYMASTER]

I suppose,I'll feed it the cyclopeeze.Thanks Nano.

 

[nanoreefer22]

No prob ZANY

 

[2slo4me]

i had a similar problem with my torch, turned out to be my temps were a lil too high for it... when i installed my 2 250 watt MH lighst the temp would rise to 82 degrees and started bleeching my torch... i got the temps down to 77-78 stable and she seems to be doing just fine.

what do the temps in your tank look like?

 

[ZANYMASTER]

77-78 degrees.Feel like getting rid of it or giving it away to someone to take care of it.