Torch tentacles fell off

[Silence]

Strangely all of the tentacles fell off my torch, and in 1 piece. Not sure what caused this? Possible injury? An acro colony fell on top of it about a week ago. Been in my tank for over a year.

 

[Brad Miller]

Looks like it decided to jump ship to protect itself from completely dying.
Maybe place the tentacles on a rock and see if it will take hold and grow.

 

[alpinestar]

maybe from warfare eh. looks awfully close to that purple euphyllia

 

[Scotty Buttons]

I had this happen once to a green tip hammer and im not sure why. Sadly after several weeks it didn't make it

 

[Silence]

For sure it isn't warfare, I only bought the other coral next to the skeleton from ASD yesterday, and the torch started peeling off a few days ago

 

[dhof]

I had this happen once to a green tip hammer and im not sure why. Sadly after several weeks it didn't make it

I had this happen about 3 months ago. I put the torch (minus skeleton) into a cut in half plastic soda bottle with some small rocks in it. It’s still doing well in there but sadly it hasn’t attached to any rocks nor to the the soda bottle wall. I thought maybe it might start to generate a new skeleton of its own but after 3 months it’s really the same spineless blob without any new skeleton formation at all. It is surviving and relatively happy, but looks to be a long road (years?) before it is on its own again.

I did the soda bottle thing with a few ricordea and they attached right away to the plastic bottle which I then cut out and glued the small plastic section the ricordea attached onto the rock in my tank.

My torch was doing poorly so I superglued some heads to a new frag plug. The superglue setting in the tank caused air bubbles to crawl up the skeleton and came out the torch tissue. Air traveled up through the torch’s tentacles till the were straight up. This is what caused mine to eject off its skeleton. Lesson for me: don’t superglue porous skeletons and then put into the water till the glue is fully cured.

Good luck with yours.

 

[mikes686]

We had an avalanche in our rockwork which broke off 3 or 4 heads on a hammer. The broken pieces have fallen off and subsequently been eaten by my cuc. The remaining coral seems to be healing...fingers crossed. This is the first euphyllia that we've had success with, over a year.

 

[Texreef]

I had this happen to a torch coral as well a couple years ago If I remember correctly it's called polyp bail out. The only thing I could figure out is it was too close to a power head that was blasting it 24/7

 

[Scotty Buttons]

Thanks for sharing @Texreef and welcome to R2R!

 

[SirenBethany]

Total bale out, something made it very unhappy. Did you try moving it's skeleton and putting it back on it to see if it would reattach?