Tiger Torch - Light levels?

[FlyPenFly]

My LFS is Kung Fu Corals and I went in and picked up a Tiger Torch there today that looks just like this one:

Tiger Torch

Tiger Torch WYSIWYG Approximately 2.5" Bright Gold tentacle base and dark teal towards tip of tentacles and bright teal tips. Very Unique and gorgeous torch! You will receive the exact coral pictured. Care: Medium flow and light. Under lower light gold color fades and grows brighter under...

luckycorals.com

That is it's an intermix of gold and green tentacles. The owner of the LFS indicated to me that I should keep it in a lower light area of my tank or the gold might fade out. He suggested in the 150 PAR range.

I'm finding some conflicting information on it since in the link above, LuckyCorals says to keep it in medium light and if the light is too low the gold will fade out....

Any thoughts or suggestions? I'm getting direct PAR measurements from an Apogee device and I'm on G6 Radion XR15 blues.

 

[Daenion]

I got one and the gold started to fade when the light was around 120 par so i bumped it up to 160 and it is doing better.

From my personal experience so far 150-200 par for yellow colored torches seem to be good.

 

[Katherine Corals]

I keep my Tiger torch collection at 250-280 PAR under an Orphek LED/T5 hybrid lighting.

 

[REEF_TO_KEEP]

I keep my Tiger torch collection at 250-280 PAR under an Orphek LED/T5 hybrid lighting.

Hi Katherine

what are your secrets keeping tiger torch? I love them and I have tried couple times of tiger torch but both failed. I found them very difficult to keep. My parameters are:

KH- 8.2
Cal- 420
Mag - 1350
PH- 8 to 8.3
Nitrate- varies from 5 to 10 ppm
Phosphate -varries from 0.03 to 0.08
Kessil light- 150 to 200 par
Flow - medium to strong

I keep my Tiger torch collection at 250-280 PAR under an Orphek LED/T5 hybrid lighting.

 

[FlyPenFly]

Try turning down your flow by half and make sure it's not hitting anything directly.

 

[Katherine Corals]

Hi Katherine

what are your secrets keeping tiger torch? I love them and I have tried couple times of tiger torch but both failed. I found them very difficult to keep. My parameters are:

KH- 8.2
Cal- 420
Mag - 1350
PH- 8 to 8.3
Nitrate- varies from 5 to 10 ppm
Phosphate -varries from 0.03 to 0.08
Kessil light- 150 to 200 par
Flow - medium to strong

Here are my Values:

NO3: 40ish
PO4: 0.3-0.4
ALK: 8.3
CA: 430
MAG: 1500
TEMP: 76.3-77.0
SALINITY: 1.026

 

[Placenta89]

Here are my Values:

NO3: 40ish
PO4: 0.3-0.4
ALK: 8.3
CA: 430
MAG: 1500
TEMP: 76.3-77.0
SALINITY: 1.026

This makes me happy, had my tiger for a couple weeks now with almost identical parameters. Fully extended and doing well but it's fading color. Just bought brand new lights and a par meter and I am wayyy lower than what I thought. I thought maybe it was the high nO3 and po4 but I was sitting at 80 par with the old lights and just bumped it to 150 so I'll try to acclimate it to 190-200.