Huge torch head

[Brian1f1]

Hello all,

Im just posting on this bc I’m curious about other members experiences. I got myself a single head of WWC neon tip torch back during one of their summer live sales. It’s a nice piece. The thing is, I’ve never seen a single head get so enormous before, and their is no sign that it is even beginning to split. If it continues at this clip it’s going to become problematic (a good kind of problem, all things considered) soon because I can’t frag it. Has anyone had a torch grow this way here? Also, in my experience, torches don’t generally grow flesh too far down their skeletons, but this one has grown flesh the whole way down and is now, for lack of a better term, encrusting the rock! What’s that about?

For size reference that’s a full grown female perc.

This is also for size reference. The smaller torch next to it has two heads that are becoming four, and the gold torch below has 3 and nearly 4 heads. Pretty cool how diverse coral is even within what we currently typically identify as a single species.

 

[Brian1f1]

People always think it’s a plate coral or an anemone when I show them the tank, ha.

 

[John3]

Yes I’ve seen ones with yours coloring get huge heads like that. My friends has tentacles that are 6-7” long as well.

 

[Daniel91]

Following. Same here, got a purple singlehezd torch bigger than my green 3head.

 

[Brian1f1]

I mean, my photos barely do it justice. I have to move the hammer behind it very soon. Check out this angle. Interesting that your friends is similar. Maybe it is the morph.

Check out this angle, lol. Those tentacles are fat but also super super long.

 

[Daniel91]

You know what, as long as it’s extending and happy like that, you should enjoy. Nature will do its thing eventually. Perhaps it’ll keep getting bigger as a single head and never split.

 

[Hypan]

From my experience A lot of the Aussie torches tend to have fattie heads. I’ve seen a couple with the skeleton close to silver dollar size. They don’t seem to grow as branchy as their Indo cousins. I’m always amazed at the polyp extension too. That’s one fine specimen you have there. Definitely a keeper!

 

[Rickyb1982]

Hello all,

Im just posting on this bc I’m curious about other members experiences. I got myself a single head of WWC neon tip torch back during one of their summer live sales. It’s a nice piece. The thing is, I’ve never seen a single head get so enormous before, and their is no sign that it is even beginning to split. If it continues at this clip it’s going to become problematic (a good kind of problem, all things considered) soon because I can’t frag it. Has anyone had a torch grow this way here? Also, in my experience, torches don’t generally grow flesh too far down their skeletons, but this one has grown flesh the whole way down and is now, for lack of a better term, encrusting the rock! What’s that about?

For size reference that’s a full grown female perc.

This is also for size reference. The smaller torch next to it has two heads that are becoming four, and the gold torch below has 3 and nearly 4 heads. Pretty cool how diverse coral is even within what we currently typically identify as a single species.

This is one head :)

 

[Brian1f1]

From my experience A lot of the Aussie torches tend to have fattie heads. I’ve seen a couple with the skeleton close to silver dollar size. They don’t seem to grow as branchy as their Indo cousins. I’m always amazed at the polyp extension too. That’s one fine specimen you have there. Definitely a keeper!

That’s really interesting.

 

[Corey Baker]

I have a neon type torch and the thing branches and grows like crazy... I attached a picture.. far right corner you can see the torch, that's only half of it and for reference the nem just to the left is about the side of an open hand. Enjoy yours! if healthy they can grow nicely

 

[WetSleeve]

My Aussie purple in the back there is a single head compared to the others, in the day time is the size of a soft ball with polyps 6-7” long.
Admittedly it is currently working on it first split as of recently.
For its size compared to the others around it though, sounds similar.
You should get a split soon.

 

[rcpalmer1]

Here is a torch I got from WWC . For reference the green and gold hammers have 3 heads each and the purple one has 10. The torch is just 1. The pictures don't do it justice, the hammer and torch touch most of the time.

 

[Brian1f1]

Here is a torch I got from WWC . For reference the green and gold hammers have 3 heads each and the purple one has 10. The torch is just 1. The pictures don't do it justice, the hammer and torch touch most of the time.

Awesome gold torch!

 

[Brian1f1]

My Aussie purple in the back there is a single head compared to the others, in the day time is the size of a soft ball with polyps 6-7” long.
Admittedly it is currently working on it first split as of recently.
For its size compared to the others around it though, sounds similar.
You should get a split soon.

That looks just like mine!

 

[LetItReef]

Happy Torch

 

[Brian1f1]

Happy Torch

Mine have never had an extraordinarily long sweeper like that beauty has.

 

[rcpalmer1]

That last pic was not real good. This does not fully show it but is better.

 

[Reef-Tank]

Very nice Torch

 

[Brian1f1]

That last pic was not real good. This does not fully show it but is better.

Sweet. Is it an Aussie?

 

[rcpalmer1]

Not sure. It wasn't labeled. I got it from WWC.