Has anyone had torches spawn?

[Jettareefer223]

To preface this by staying I’m sps collector just curious to see if any of the LPS wizards can chime in. I’m still intrigued by what took place about 10 or so months ago with I think is what’s considered some type of rainbow torch green striations in center/orange/blue tips? I acquired the mother colony as a gift about 18 months ago from one my good clients I’ve installed/service their three reef tanks for years. Fast forward to The “spawning” event I really don’t know when this occured one day I saw what almost appeared to be majanos, but they were orange I almost nuked them with kalk. I forgot about nuking them thankfully l they gradually grew two little randomly placed rainbow torches one formed right over jf jackolantern and one one attached to a magnet holds a stag colony. At this point have reached a decent size. I’ve never heard of this happening I’ve been reefing 18 years/5 years as service professional I think it’s pretty cool. Again no lps guru looking to see if anyone share a similar experience or shed some light on how they spawn or reproduce. Here’s some pictures.

Mother colony

Number 1 and mother (family photo)

Earlier pictures of #1 to show how it attached to the magnet!

Number #2

 

[SuncrestReef]

I was lucky to catch my torch spawning last year and turned off my pumps to get some video footage. It was spewing a stream of cloudy liquid for several minutes:

 

[Hemmdog]

To preface this by staying I’m sps collector just curious to see if any of the LPS wizards can chime in. I’m still intrigued by what took place about 10 or so months ago with I think is what’s considered some type of rainbow torch green striations in center/orange/blue tips? I acquired the mother colony as a gift about 18 months ago from one my good clients I’ve installed/service their three reef tanks for years. Fast forward to The “spawning” event I really don’t know when this occured one day I saw what almost appeared to be majanos, but they were orange I almost nuked them with kalk. I forgot about nuking them thankfully l they gradually grew two little randomly placed rainbow torches one formed right over jf jackolantern and one one attached to a magnet holds a stag colony. At this point have reached a decent size. I’ve never heard of this happening I’ve been reefing 18 years/5 years as service professional I think it’s pretty cool. Again no lps guru looking to see if anyone share a similar experience or shed some light on how they spawn or reproduce. Here’s some pictures.

Mother colony

Number 1 and mother (family photo)

Earlier pictures of #1 to show how it attached to the magnet!

Number #2

That is so cool! It just happened naturally? You didn’t kill the return flow when/if you saw it spawning I assume. Fascinating.

 

[Jettareefer223]

That is so cool! It just happened naturally? You didn’t kill the return flow when/if you saw it spawning I assume. Fascinating.

Yeah it’s was bizarre I hadn’t witnessed anything in terms of visible of spawning I was completely unaware that had even taken place. Until one day I noticed little tiny orange polyp looking things appeared maybe an 1/8-1/4”’ , and other then the color at time bared no resemblance to a torch. I don’t run much of anything in terms of mechanical filtration that might have helped. For it took about 5 months from the time I initially saw them until their true form/color was established. Recently have started taking off growth wise.

 

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Happens with the indo ones for us often, We've yet to have babies grow out though, I'm sure the water movement in our systems doesn't help though

 

[Jettareefer223]

Happens with the indo ones for us often, We've yet to have babies grow out though, I'm sure the water movement in our systems doesn't help though

Originally both sprouted up in the only dead spot that exists in lower right corner of my DT within 2-3” of one another. Definitely a contributing factor in yeilding these guys and total dumb luck. Like you mentioned none managed to form and anchored down elsewhere due strong/random flow that uniformly covers almost the entire tank.

Side note/question I was on bubba’s thread other day he had posted a video of the display tank at y’alls farm. I wanted to do something similar in terms minimalizing rock mass for better flow and utilization of space for coral placement / plug and play aspect using pvc. Just curious if you had build a thread or more photos? Definitely functional and the tank looks awesome!

 

[Jettareefer223]

I was thinking back on just random things I use to do that may have caused some stimulation to induce spawning. For a while I would feed oyster feast at night turning gyres/skimmer off overnight there’s a possibility that could’ve spurred it. I have not l had it happen again I don’t feed anything but polyp boosters daily typically in the middle of the day the pumps stay on for that.

 

[Hemmdog]

I was thinking back on just random things I use to do that may have caused some stimulation to induce spawning. For a while I would feed oyster feast at night turning gyres/skimmer off overnight there’s a possibility that could’ve spurred it. I have not l had it happen again I don’t feed anything but polyp boosters daily typically in the middle of the day the pumps stay on for that.

That’s interesting. I haven’t thought to do that without target feeding. Sounds pretty cool. What do you use for that? I have some polyp lab polyp extender but I haven’t used it.

 

[Jettareefer223]

I have to find some logical explanation so I can move on and feel fufilled lol

 

[Jettareefer223]

That’s interesting. I haven’t thought to do that without target feeding. Sounds pretty cool. What do you use for that? I have some polyp lab polyp extender but I haven’t used it.

I used Oyster feast, reef roids, brightwells coral amino/acropower I would mix it beforehand then broadcast.

 

[Jettareefer223]

I’m considering adding coral amino or acropower back to the mix. I run a gigantic skimmer rated for 6-8X my volume even though the nutrient reading are what they are. It strips the water regardless I had problems for the first 6 months the thing works too d&$m good!! Reef Octopus fan since day one I’ve been happy with them well the with the classic cones/SRO’s, I bought POV-DC2 when I was first released new for $800 the pump went out with 9 months solidifies why I don’t try new things. Haha I still have it as a trophy to forever reminding me simple is really better... pictures show how it’s just collecting dust the replacement pump was like $285 for that it should last a few years coralvue basically told me tough titties it wasn’t covered under warranty even within the year hahaha. Then proceeded to tell me they had release varios dc pumps I could buy that as the replacement which was $375 it was one of those are you kidding me moments.