Is there a way to get a torch to split further apart?

[bigmoose52]

This may be rhetorical but the torch colonies I have, grow amazing and split frequently. Issue is the heads are so close together it’s hard to frag. Is there a trick to get the heads to seperate more?

 

[Reefer Matt]

Is the tissue fully separated? Usually they split, but take a couple months to fully separate. I don't recall a way to force them to separate apart farther.

 

[bigmoose52]

They seperate, they’re just close together and I’ve been getting a lot of people wanting single head frags and it’s almost impossible. I figured I’d throw it out there. I was thinking about letting the colony just sit for awhile and see if it helps.

 

[violetjones]

This may be rhetorical but the torch colonies I have, grow amazing and split frequently. Issue is the heads are so close together it’s hard to frag. Is there a trick to get the heads to seperate more?

What do you feed your torch? Im trying to get mine to grow!

 

[bigmoose52]

What do you feed your torch? Im trying to get mine to grow!

Sorry for the late response, I try to dose phyto a couple times a week. reef roids randomly lol. Maybe Once a week. I use less water with the reef roids to keep them on the thicker side and you can just drop some on every coral. I make sure to drop a mysis on the heads mainly when I feed my fish. Once they have a few heads it seems to happen quicker. They’re in one of my smaller tanks, I try to let the tank do its thing and just maintain numbers with weekly wc. And just keeping an eye on how everything is looking.

 

[GlassMunky]

The simple and short answer is no.
if they are happy and growing thats gonna be it, you won’t speed up their growth by any significant amount.

what I can suggest though, is try using a band saw to cut them apart rather than bone clippers as that will give you a very clean and precise cut so you COULD cut between the heads that are already split without negatively effecting the whole colony