Green torch coral

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jesses89

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anybody have a green torch coral?
anyone have pics? ***)
id post pics of mine but i have a crappy camera phone...
what do you feed yours???
read that you can see yellow when you have the actinics on....
the tips look sort of yellow...is that what its refering too?
 
frankthetank

frankthetank

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I'd like to know some stuff about these. I saw one on swf.com and it looked really cool. I didn't know if they were difficult to keep. I have a 46g bow with a current dual sattelite 192w pc light system. I wonder if I could do these???
 
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jesses89

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do you have actinics in that setup?
they seem to love actinic lighting as well....
and thats more then enough lighting....
 
snapperboy

snapperboy

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Here is my 4 headed torch that is splitting and now forming definative branches into 10, yes TEN heads! I'm pretty sure that one of those already has 2 mouths as well. Its growing under 130W pc and is in the edge of a 400W 20k metal halide spectrum.

 
quil

quil

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I have one under PCs...when I first got it, it had 5 heads. Three of them died within a week of getting it home. The other two held on and are doing great...they've both split, and now the thing is gigantic.
 
fishkid2

fishkid2

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Originally Posted by Quil
I have one under PCs...when I first got it, it had 5 heads. Three of them died within a week of getting it home. The other two held on and are doing great...they've both split, and now the thing is gigantic.
same here. i bought a torch coral online it came with 8 heads.
then about a week later 6 heads died off :mad: , but the two i have now are huge. and i do not know why its growing longer tentencles then growing more heads on it and its been almost a year when i got it.
sorry i don't have pics don't have the right camera
 
saltn00b

saltn00b

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fish kid, long tentacles are called sweepers and the coral sends them out swinging to sting other corals when it 'smells' other corals nearby, chemically speaking.
 
quil

quil

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My torch has really long tentacles...some of them are probably 8-10 inches long. I'll post a pic when I get home.
 
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jesses89

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theres like 12+ heads on mine... got it at my LFS for 40 bucks two weeks ago.... wish i had a good camera to take some pics of it.
 
quil

quil

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I have not personally seen it happen, but I have read others posts on here who have said that in time they will grow back.
 
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