corkscrew torch

[Polishpower]

I fed my corals today and turned out the white light about 15 mins after. the torch starting doing this after about 10 mins of the white lights being off. I just thought it was kind of cool any idea why they do this or has this happened to anyone else?

 

[helen ann]

WOW, that is pretty interesting!
Have only had my torch for a couple weeks and haven't never seen it do that

This post will give your thread a lil' bump, hopefully someone will be able to chime in.

 

[JaimeAdams]

I'll bump again.

 

[ahiggins]

whoa, Ive never seen that before...
May be unrelated but I had a small colony of rastas that were "normal" then one day I noticed that they all had curly skirts. Out of nowhere lol

It almost looks like it was retracting (like they do for "night night time") and some tissue didnt retract.

 

[Polishpower]

ya it was after feeding and after the white lights webby out. it was real cool looking though

 

[Reefhabit]

I've seen long tentacle torches and tube anemonies do that but it was because the current was too strong

 

[Polishpower]

it has had the same flow since put in about 2 month ago. but I did adjust the one power head so maybe that did it

 

[Laterrick Mcclain]

This is my noob experience. The torch I have was the first coral I bought. It almost died, but had made almost a full recovery. I made two mistakes. Too much current made my polyps start twisting just like yours. Also in start of my tank I was running my lights in a more blue look, not knowing any better to notice the polyps started getting thin a stringy. Between the blue light spectrum and the high flow the polyps started twisting themselves off and floating around the tank stinging other coral it made contact with. I say 70% of the polyps twisted themselves off. I removed a powerhead and I now run my lights mainly in a white spectrum my torch had puffed back up and is keeping is new polyps. Just my personal noob experience