Attributing factors to long term Euphyllia health and growth...

[Shady]

I have mainly branching euphyllia , never had much joy from walling or torches , probably because they have been damaged in transportation to the shops. Over the 14 years I have had kh from 5.6 to 14.8 , temperature from 24 to 32 degrees c , magnesium at differing levels and the one thing that has stayed stable is an alternating random flow , not too heavy and I dose lots of iodine, and I mean a lot.
The big frogspawn has grown from a one head frag 14 years ago and has been fragged when I moved tanks ( it was too big to get out in one piece )

The monti and sps have been removed recently and within 2 months the euphyllia have expanded to fill the space left. Maybe I'm just lucky with them . I even had one with brown jelly disease that I treated the one head and it survived. ( so those that say they don't survive , they can )

 

[HolisticBear]

I have mainly branching euphyllia , never had much joy from walling or torches , probably because they have been damaged in transportation to the shops. Over the 14 years I have had kh from 5.6 to 14.8 , temperature from 24 to 32 degrees c , magnesium at differing levels and the one thing that has stayed stable is an alternating random flow , not too heavy and I dose lots of iodine, and I mean a lot.
The big frogspawn has grown from a one head frag 14 years ago and has been fragged when I moved tanks ( it was too big to get out in one piece )

The monti and sps have been removed recently and within 2 months the euphyllia have expanded to fill the space left. Maybe I'm just lucky with them . I even had one with brown jelly disease that I treated the one head and it survived. ( so those that say they don't survive , they can )

That is beautiful. Congratulations.

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

I keep mine under just enough flow to sway front to back. I keep my pH at 8.0 to 8.1 78deg alk 9 cal 500 mg 1600 mine have a ton of new heads developing on the hammers and all torches are spliting.

 

[GoVols]

Besides the Big 3.

Gentle to medium flow and keeping organics/nutrients up within the water column.

 

[rgaleana2009]

Hello reefers, wondering if you can help me with my green torch. About 3 days ago it started to not open i have another torchs and they seems to be fine. Any idea? Parameters mg 1300 kh 8 ca 430. Ph 8.2 They have been in my tank for 3 months, could it be that he is splitting? How i know they are in slplitting transition? What to expect?

 

[Mal11224]

In the beginning I had some trouble with a few but now that my tank has been up for a little while, I've had some luck. I keep most of mine on one rock together opposite my power head and they seem to like it. I try my best not to move them or out them directly under the light. They mainly hang out near the bottom.

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

In the beginning I had some trouble with a few but now that my tank has been up for a little while, I've had some luck. I keep most of mine on one rock together opposite my power head and they seem to like it. I try my best not to move them or out them directly under the light. They mainly hang out near the bottom.

That torch will eventual kill those frogspawns on that rock.

 

[thegriffer]

I really like my torch coral the most probably because I have never killed one. My first experience with wall hammer was a disaster and unfortunately led to the death of other corals because of brown jelly. One thing that has always confused me is why this happened to my frogspawn.

Before.

After.

That happened about two days after I moved them into my new tank. I tried everything. All the water conditions were identical to the previous, I messed with the flow, tried changing calc and alk just to see what would happen, I messed with the lights and still nothing. I eventually moved them back to the original tank but unfortunately nothing changed and it's been about 6 months and they still look the same. The tentacle extension you see in the last picture is as far as they extend. I just find it bizarre that all of my other euphyllia including other frogspawn acclimated just fine.

 

[twreefer]

That's not a torch, but an elegance coral (non-euphyllia).

 

[Mal11224]

That's not a torch, but an elegance coral (non-euphyllia).

I know it's not a euphyllia. But it is a relative from the euphyllidae family known as cataphyllia. I like it so I posted it.

 

[Evan West]

I find mine like low flow in the scene of low flow being that they are gently swaying around in the breeze if you will. If they are bent over or not extended its too much and if they barley move its too little! I also find that while most say low light as well mine color up and grow best in the high end of low or the low end of med for light levels. I also feed mine, my orange frogspawn as grown 6 new buds out of its side since I started feeding them. I also find that while they are forgiving stability helps just like any coral.

 

[Rileyschulz9]

Like others have said, flow and light are key. Plus, once they are placed, not moving them around at all, if possible. They become conditioned to a certain amount of flow and light once they are settled in.

I've had this "frammer" and the rainbow torches for a while now. The green hammer below the frammer was actually bought from a Petco as a single head frag. The Torches remain on the sand bed and the frammer is about halfway up a 24" tank.

Lights: Radion G4 Pros 9" from the top of the water line.

Broadcast feeding LRS Reef Frenzy daily. ReefRoids once/week.

Flow: Gyre XF 250. Variable. It's mounted vertically about 6 inches away, behind the rock that the frammer is sitting on. Provides a lot of indirect flow.

Tank parameters are kept, for the most part, in the range pictured. This was post-water change, so the levels are a bit elevated from the norm. Running ZEOvit, so alk is kept low.

What do you use to measure your parameters?

 

[BiggestE222]

I'm no expert for sure but I want more soon. So.

IMO. Flow.
Besides stable parameters and alk/cal availability and correct light.
It seems to me many say a low flow for these guys. But what low flow doesn't do is is remove waste products and allow for alk/cal uptake similar to sps and D Riddles now popular studies on them.

This has always been my go to article on understating both euphyllia as a species and BJD cause prevention and treatment.
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/10/corals

I have a beautiful bicolor. It has not grown after 2 months. However after finding a spot between rocks that provides decent flow but not too much which is what SPS dominant tank mostly has it seems to be happie also lowered the light a bit on the XR30 Blues to about 65% from 75%.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Great discussion!

 

[Ricox]

What parameters do you guys recommend to keep euphyllia happy? And how do you get them to fully extend?

 

[scardall]

What is the sweet spot or Alk or PH? Mine seem to be happy but they aren't thriving. Most important for mine is lighting and a little bit of flow.

mine 8.3dkh .

 

[ShanTank]

Euphyllia! What's not to love?

image via @TCK Corals

Ok maybe you are not a fan of awesome coral tentacles whipping in the water column but a lot of us are! If you're not then head on over to the sps forum.

All joking aside, what would you say are some attributing factors to long term Euphyllia health and growth?

Let us know!

I love the torches, but have never been able to keep them alive while my Euphyllia’s seem to thrive