Torch coral oopsie

[11purewater]

don't panic they're pretty tough!

[asylumdown]

Originally Posted by 11purewater

don't panic they're pretty tough!

+1 I had one that was from my 5 gallon pico that was the first coral in my big tank. It survived a temp spike in to the mid 30s, a drop in salinity down to 1.015 while I was out of town and some equipment failed, and then finally, falling inside one of my largest rock structures where it was buried by accident. I wasn't prepared to take apart the largest rock structure in the tank to rescue it, and couldn't see it, so I thought it was dead. 5 months later I saw the flash on one very pale tentacle under a rock. I rescued it, and even though it was practically white, it's now made a complete recovery.

Even if you lose one head, the other will start to branch in no time.

[carriej]

The "injured head" seems to have made a recovery. It has stopped shriveling up. However neither one of them are getting long and tentacly like they were at first.

I fed them some mysis shrimp and they took it.

But they look weird. I think they might be splitting or something. How long does this normally take? They look a little odd. I wish I took a pic earlier but all my pictures look navy blue (even though my tank is only about 14k colorwise. (3blueplus,1purpleplus,2coralplus)

My xenia also is doing something weird. Looks like it's growing another trunk (not sure of proper name)... and this morning I noticed a WHOLE bunch of little grasping heads on it. Why is everything going crazy on me!? LOL

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by carriej

The "injured head" seems to have made a recovery. It has stopped shriveling up. However neither one of them are getting long and tentacly like they were at first.

I fed them some mysis shrimp and they took it.

But they look weird. I think they might be splitting or something. How long does this normally take? They look a little odd. I wish I took a pic earlier but all my pictures look navy blue (even though my tank is only about 14k colorwise. (3blueplus,1purpleplus,2coralplus)

My xenia also is doing something weird. Looks like it's growing another trunk (not sure of proper name)... and this morning I noticed a WHOLE bunch of little grasping heads on it. Why is everything going crazy on me!? LOL

Regular xenias are rated as "extremely" fast grower so no surprise I have never kept the regular one but people always seem to curse how fast xenia grows. I have the pompom non-pulsing variety and that grows slowly.

Good to hear that the torch is doing good

[11purewater]

Originally Posted by carriej

The "injured head" seems to have made a recovery. It has stopped shriveling up. However neither one of them are getting long and tentacly like they were at first.

I fed them some mysis shrimp and they took it.

But they look weird. I think they might be splitting or something. How long does this normally take? They look a little odd. I wish I took a pic earlier but all my pictures look navy blue (even though my tank is only about 14k colorwise. (3blueplus,1purpleplus,2coralplus)

My xenia also is doing something weird. Looks like it's growing another trunk (not sure of proper name)... and this morning I noticed a WHOLE bunch of little grasping heads on it. Why is everything going crazy on me!? LOL

Not crazy just growing,don't be surprized if your Zenia fades out to nothing.They are nutrient sinks so if everything else is healthy and your parameters are good don't waste time on it.