Someone help!!!!

[Conski]

Okay my the other day i took the time to move some rock around my tank, clean the glass real nice and did tests for my 14 gal!

2 days go by and i wake up today and my brown torch coral is just dead. straight up deteriorating and the polyps are coming off!

prior to this i did no water changes becuase my CA2 was so high. and i wanted to lower it

Anyways everything else in the tank looks fine, even my cyph. coral and its the the hardest coral to take care of in my tank and it was fully bloomed.

I ran test
Ammonia 0
didnt test trite there isnt any
trates 15( had at 0 for the longest time before i stopped doing weekly water changes)
alk 8
Ca 560 (was 680)
Salinity 1.023

I dk whats wrong with it! it wasnt under flow last night for the first time but its look in poor health for a couple days. either way i did my first wc in 2 weeks and had to use salt (say goodbye to the progress made lowering my CA) to get rid of the crap from the coral... i dk why it died but when i pulled that sucker out of the tank it REAKED

[Conski]

i dont want any toxins leaching and killing all my other corals, im not sure if torches do that or not but what should i do?! if i have to im gonna move it all to the new tank cause i am not risking losing my clowns

[Amphiprion]

If the other corals are fine and all other parameters, minus calcium, check out fine, then I would have to lean more toward a pathogen that killed the torch. It could have been scraped, nicked, etc. and that would have allowed infection to set in. One thing you can do in the meantime is get the salinity up. Some of the bacteria that affect corals like slightly less saline water. Not saying that it was bacteria or anything of the like, but it won't hurt to do it.

[1wizz]

My Advice would be a large water change with slightly increased salinity getting it up as slowly as you can 0.01 by 0.01 at a time and to hold back on the mass evacuation, the one thing I've learnt is nothing is achieved with haste in this hobby other than more problems with harder to find causes.
Make yourself a brew !

[Conski]

I would love to do water changes but the more salt the more my ca2 will sky rocket! I need new salt... Oceanic has way to much ca in it, any ideas?

[Conski]

It's at 1.023 I'll raise it to .025 but I don't want to raise it any higher I don't need any more ca aghhh

[Amphiprion]

True, I wasn't thinking about that. Plain Instant Ocean works well and current batches have close to natural seawater values. Red Sea (the plain kind, not Coral Pro) also has parameters in range of NSW. I personally use IO since it is the cheapest and is a decent salt.

[Conski]

Yea I'm gonna look into other salts