Coral Of The Week - Euphyllias

[TigerIssey]

OOHHHHH

There may well be.

Does anyone else keep a Torch very near to other Euphyllias and what colours are they??

 

[bae1994]

my maroon is trying to host mine will it hurt

 

[TigerIssey]

Bae, Clowns have been known to kill Euphyllias from their hosting habits.

I would try offering the clown another coral to host. Rhodactis mushrooms work well, it saved my frogspawn.

 

[bae1994]

oh great ill keep my eye on them then

 

[seffieuk]

My dark green torch is about three inches away from my lemon froggy, no sweepers yet though

Seffie x

 

[Buddyboy67]

Just found these in my photo account....shows hammer sending out sweepers

 

[seffieuk]

Cracking photos

Seffie x

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Here is my pink and green torch (not sure scientific name). This was when I first got it and the colours are much darker now.

Couple of things to mention on care:
As mentioned too much flow is really not good for them. Basic rule is to have the tentacles gently swaying. if they are getting pushed to far one way or moving too quickly they will close up and eventually die.

With regards to lighting I have kept a hammer and a torch under power compacts and T5's. They grew much better under 2 or 3 T5 tubes then they did with power compacts.

Another important point is positioning. In the photo above you see that it is coming out the side of a rock. This didnt work and I ended up losing 3 heads at the bottom because it wasnt getting enough light. Make sure you position them so that all heads get a good amount of light. If some are starting to get over shadowed then try fraging out a couple of branches to clear some space.

I have never observed and sweeper tentacles on the hammer or torch I have but the torch is fairly far away from anything else.

With regards to feeding. I dont often feed mine but it does take food out of the water column when I feed my fish. It takes mysis, brineshrimp and even bloodworm (though I dont feed this very often).

After the nightmare I had with my new tank and a pretty big ammonia spike and cycle I have started target feeding mine again (along with my bubble coral and zoa's). I defrost a cube of mysis and a cube of brine shrimp and put in a small tub, I then add a little marine snow or phyto and then fill the rest of the tub with tank water and mix it all up. I use a turkey baster to feed the corals with.

I have found the best way to feed them is to put the end of the turkey baster amongst the bigger tentacles (carefully) then gentle squeeze the bulb on the baster until the mysis is just coming out the end. If you do it right 9 times out of ten a tentacle will grab it and pull it out. I do the same for my bubble coral just putting the end near its feeder tentacles.

You dont have to mix phyto or marine snow with the food but I do it to put my bubble coral into feeding mode and I have also found my torch responds a lot better to feeding when there you are putting a little bit of phyto out along with the meatier foods.

With regards to clowns and hosting. My perc clown hosts my torch and doesn't do it any harm (and she feeds it). However she is not fully grown and bigger species of clown could do it a fair amount of damage (they can get very rough with them).

 

[Buddyboy67]

Forgot to mention these are excellent intro to lps for lower lght level tanks....mine sit on the bottom, over 3 feet below a single 150 watt halide and expand brilliantly, whereas many other species simply wouldn't accept these lower light levels.

 

[TigerIssey]

Just found this picture, expelling zooxanthellae, can be pooping or can be exchanging communal algae, can be a prelude to bleaching.

 

[seffieuk]

Another amazing photo Tina. I remember when you first showed us that, I was blown away, just amazing

Seffie x

 

[TigerIssey]

Another Sweeper tentacle photo for you, taken earlier today.

The funny thing is that it does not seem to have harmed the hammer coral at all. Half an hour later it was puffed up as normal.

Will be keeping an eye on this and keep you all posted.

 

[kj23502]

Here's a fts.

I'd like to put in a hammer, torch or frogspawn some day, but don't want the sweepers to kill everything

Where would you put it in this tank? For scale, it's 30" x 18"h and 12" front to back

Thanks

maybe the top middle?? but if the sweepers can go 8" down it'll still sting crap? Maybe I should pass on this coral?

 

[TigerIssey]

I would not put any of them at the top under halides and you need to work out where the flow would be better. You want only medium flow so the tentacles are just moving in the current.

As stands, as long as flow is ok, I would put the Torch on either end, the frogspawn at the other and the hammer in the middle.

I really have not had that many problems at all with them close together though, frogspawn and hammer do seem to handle being next to each other very well.

 

[kj23502]

just to clarify, I only want one type. Not sure what one now. Was leaning toward frogspawn to get it locally, but the guy doesn't have any now. Basically I'd buy any version of the 3 as long as I liked the coloring.

Maybe I'll buy another small rock and put it in the back corner on the left?? I'll make the right corner a Ric rock??

my k2 is pointing at the front of the glass now. The current is strongest is front and slows as it loops around back to it again....if that makes sense. I moved it to push the scum toward my new surface skimmer.