Retracting torch coral...help

[Sub-Mariner]

I just bought a torch coral on Sunday...now today I notices some of the tentacles on one of the branches are darker in color and retracted slightly...all of my water parameters are good...calcium 450ppm, sg 1.0245, nitrates 5..p04 = 0. ....any advice...its almost to the top of the tank...Does it need more light? I have 130 watts pc. the other branches appear ok....

 

[Anonymous]

Mine expands and contracts all the time, especially after its been fed. I'd watch it and if it continues I'd try moving it down, maybe it's getting too much light.

It took a lot of trial and error to find the exact spot in my tank with the light and flow to make the torch I have happy.

 

[Anonymous]

What do you feed them? I've got a Hammer and frogspawn (kinda the same, right?), and I haven't fed them EVER. 8O ...My hammer is now double it's original size in about a year's time. If I could improve even this growth, it would be kinda cool. 8)

~wings~

 

[Anonymous]

I feed squid and mysis, soaked in Selcon. Defrost the food, soak it in Selcon, pour that into a brine shrimp net, then rinse with tank water to get the excess nutrients out. I use a 60 CC huge bolus irrigation syringe I get through a vet supply. My torch had 4 heads when I bought it three months ago and it's got 8 1/2 now (it's splitting again).

Actually I target feed that mix to everything that will take it a couple of times a week.

 

[Anonymous]

I've never used Selcon, you like it I guess? ...doing research on it now.
~wings~

 

[Anonymous]

I do like it, all the coral in my tank will put out feeder tenticles if I just put a drop into the water column - it's like ringing the dinner bell.

I use it to enrich baby brine shrimp and I also make a slurry of cyclopeeze defrosted and drained, de-encapsulated brine shrimp eggs and Selcon as fish food. Works well on the freshwater Krib fry I raise as well :lol:.

 

[Anonymous]

cool! I'll have to pick some of that up. As always... thanks

~wings~

 

[Anonymous]

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