I dunno..my Torch Coral is confusing me.

yankee boy · 05-29-2006, 01:07 AM

I got a torch coral frag and the first day it looked awesome swaying and stuff, well come around the second day I super glued the skeleton of the torch to a piece of LR. When I did it i took the torch out for about 20 seconds. After rearranging my stuff it doesnt look normal. It only extends half as much as it used to and only the outside tentacles bordering the head sway around and the middle tentacles kinda stay put and seem compacted. Turned the lights off and an hour later it is completely retracted in its skeleton all I can see are the flourescent green tips from the skeleton.

So is my torch coral dieing or is it just going through a stressfull phase of acclimating to a new tank and the stress of it having being moved around and glued to a piece of rock?

volitanking · 05-29-2006, 02:30 AM

most likely just stressed give it a day or so it should open IME theyre very hardy and sometimes just do that retract halfway just to scare ya.. but what are your water levels, are your lights strong enough, and how did you acclimate it? if theyre is somthing wrong it would probally be one of those things.

yankee boy · 05-29-2006, 12:26 PM

Its in a 5.5 aga tank about 5 inches away from the coralife 2x18w PC fixture. I acclimated over a course of an hour. Water paramters are fine, but today I looked at it and now its 100% bigger, its tentacles are really extended now almost to LFS size and are finally swaying in the current, so I believe it will be alright now.