Aussie Gold Torches

gfox · Feb 28, 2015

Has anyone out there have long term success keeping these alive and growing?I have not had any long term luck with these corals.I can pretty much keep other torches and hammers alive and growing.

fungia_fiend · Feb 28, 2015

I've got one at about the 3 year mark. It's getting huge.

gfox · Feb 28, 2015

fungia_fiend said:
I've got one at about the 3 year mark. It's getting huge.

What type of lighting and placement do you use?

fungia_fiend · Feb 28, 2015

It spent half it's life under radions, the other half under ATI T5s. It sits at the bottom of the tank in the corner - low light with low/moderate flow. It doesn't take food so I don't feed it.

fungia_fiend · Feb 28, 2015

I've fragged it up twice. It has 3 giant heads on it now. The heads seem a lot fewer but bigger than my frogspawn. It grows slower than the frogspawn too.

gfox · Feb 28, 2015

fungia_fiend said:
I've fragged it up twice. It has 3 giant heads on it now. The heads seem a lot fewer but bigger than my frogspawn. It grows slower than the frogspawn too.

Nice piece.I am jealous!

Tab28 · Feb 28, 2015

fungia_fiend said:
I've got one at about the 3 year mark. It's getting huge.

Congrats on that. I have tried the aussie gold. Just could not keep it. The indo gold i have has tripled in size in less than a year.

fungia_fiend · Mar 1, 2015

Tab28 said:
Congrats on that. I have tried the aussie gold. Just could not keep it. The indo gold i have has tripled in size in less than a year.

Now if I could just figure out wall hammers...

Aquaph8 · Mar 1, 2015

My gold torch is about a year now, it gets a little too much flow in my SPS tank but does pretty well. It sits on my sand bed under t5s. I haven't been able to keep an orange octo spawn yet though.

Aqua fire/medic · Mar 1, 2015

I've had mine for about 4yrs. Started as one head and split into 3. Very slow growth IMO. I have mine in high flow about 10" from my mp10 in sps supporting lighting via 6 bulb T5.

Tab28 · Mar 1, 2015

Aqua fire/medic said:
I've had mine for about 4yrs. Started as one head and split into 3. Very slow growth IMO. I have mine in high flow about 10" from my mp10 in sps supporting lighting via 6 bulb T5.

Two heads growths in 4 years that is very slow for euphyllias. But never had an assuie gold for more than about 8 months. In that time it went from 3 to 5 heads before slow decline. I would take slow growth over short longevity.

gfox · Mar 1, 2015

Are Aussie gold torches a coral that does not do well in captivity?

fungia_fiend · Mar 2, 2015

Tab28 said:
Two heads growths in 4 years that is very slow for euphyllias. But never had an assuie gold for more than about 8 months. In that time it went from 3 to 5 heads before slow decline. I would take slow growth over short longevity.

My gold torch doesn't grow that slow, but it is a much (MUCH!) slower grower than my frogspawn. I'd say about a year or a year and a half to go from a single head to 3.

rogersb · Mar 2, 2015

I bought one that was splitting into 3 heads. Afte a year I thought I could frag it. I took it to a friend's house to tilesaw it, but when we did the heads were still not separated near the base, close to 2" down. Each head got an infection from those spots and died. I have another one now and plan on just keeping it and letting it do it's thing.

nport19 · Mar 3, 2015

Torch coral

have had mine for 7 months and it seems to be doing well. However I'm not sure what to feed it.

gfox · Mar 3, 2015

Anyone know a good place to pick one up?

nport19 · Mar 3, 2015

gfox said:
Anyone know a good place to pick one up?

I got mine at petco. I would suggest getting on off that fish place that pet place.com though. They have really good corals and usually have low shipping costs as well.