Disappearing Torch Heads!

[demodiki]

I have two heads on my torch that have just disappeared. No brown jelly...no anything. Before I went out of town last week I noticed one had packed up and moved out. We came back from a 4 day vacation to find another head completely bare.

No parameters are out of whack and my other corals are doing fine. I have a maroon clown, lawnmower blenny, neon dottyback and mandarin. Also have a conch, serpent star and a few blue-legged hermits (which I have my eye on).

Any ideas? I have had corals die before but never just up and disappear.

[GaryP]

If you figure it out let me know. My torch is gone and so is half of my frog spawn. The rest of the frog spawn looks like it will survive. I've never lost a Euphyllia before. This is mystifying.

[jroescher]

I just recently lost 3 of the 5 heads of my torch, and all of my frogspawn. It's like they came unpluggled one day and floated away never to be seen again.

It's a conspiracy!!!

[caferacermike]

Nah it was just me snatching them up while you sleep.

I've had one or 2 heads suddenly disappear before. I wanted to add that you should leave the skeletons right where they are for about 2 months. I lost a hammer once to a tear in the flesh. I did not move the skeleton. 2 months later I had about 24 tiny heads growing out from it. 3 months later I fragged them and moved them all over my tank, gave some away and put 2 heads in my girlfriends nano. Now my original is growing even more heads. All in all they are each about the size of a quarter after 6 months.

[SoLiD]

I noticed that if you add too much iodine they melt with in a day or so. Spawns, Torches and Hammers have very similar cellular structure. Also, do not suddenly increase any supplemented parameter drastically or overdose your iodine or salt. If you need to make changes it's better to do it gradually over a period of a week or two. I lost 1 head this way trying to get my pH up to specs. Too much, too fast is the usual culprit. - SoLiD