Torch coral care tips

[NotReefsafe]

Just got my first torch, my most expensive coral purchase by far so I'm determined to do well with it. What are your tips for ensuring its health? Its a gold torch in a 15g tank with flowerpots, soft corals and zoas.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Just got my first torch, my most expensive coral purchase by far so I'm determined to do well with it. What are your tips for ensuring its health? Its a gold torch in a 15g tank with flowerpots, soft corals and zoas.

Assure medium light and water flow, feed it mysis shrimp, calcium no less than 380 for skeletal health and do not let phosphate get too high

 

[Lemons]

Torches are touch and go sometimes! But ive always had success with picking the most extended one with the most skeletal base flesh,

They like flow, i keep mine in roughly 2000gph flow (i worked my way up) make sure its not just pelting the poor thing. So i like do a battle of the wave makers if you will where one ramps up and down while another stays fairly constant. This will give a good healthy growth pattern!

Torches can take a fair amount of light too, i keep mine at the top of my reef... although i set my reef up as a "Deeper reef" if you give em acclimation time they can take PAR up to 280!!

Mine like dirtier water 20ppm NO3 and 0.07 PO4

Never had much luck feedin em but who knows maybe yours will eat!

Ive kept these guys through multiple tanks and over the course of 3 years!

*edit* And ofcourse as with all corals try to keep perameters steady as possible!

 

[steveschuerger]

They definitely like at least a moderate flow. Depending on the variety they can take a fair amount of light/PAR as noted. The shorter tentacled ones , often listed as Cristata are deeper water and like less light in my experience. I try to give a good feeding of a mix of frozen about once a week. Here’s a pic of both my torches and Frog/Octospawn that like similar conditions

 

[mtraylor]

Outside of what you are seeing. My advice is to give them a real good dip for pests in something like revive. Then find a good place to mount them and leave it alone. Give room around them for space aggression

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Good tips so far. One of the things I've learned is that they can take more flow than you'd think

 

[Coinzmans Reef]

I feed mine every other day what ever the fish are eating. Flow and light are mixed according to that specific torches needs. light 250-275 par. nitrates 0-2.5 phosphates 0-.018 depending on the day, I really need to dose both of them. Hit or miss for sure, keep algae of of the main branch or it will spread and kill the torch. I dip my problem torches in H2o2 when needed.
I also use Reef moonshiners.

 

[RSNJReef]

generally speaking, with any new lps addition, especially torches,/hammers, and flowerpots, you want to start off slow so they get accustomed to your tank (your flow, water chemistry, and lights).. most moderately healthy lps will take a week or so to get used to your tank, so start off with the medium level of indirect flow (not directly off a powerhead, but flow bouncing off a rock or a wall), and medium level light (about 80-120 par is ideal to start). If you blast them from the beginning, they will stress and you’ll possibly see the flesh very retracted against the skeleton which means it’s stressed). Once it gets used to the flow and light, you can then move it to a location with higher flow and light. And keep it away from your other corals where they can’t touch each other. A torch will win in a fight 80% of the time, but a stressed torch not so much.

Congrats and welcome to the addiction!!!