A lot of torch losses in the last couple of years has been caused by chop shops cutting newly acquired colonies not being rested before AND after fragging. Most Euphillia have a very fragile window of about 3 months when being moved or fragged. Once a colony has been cut and has lasted 3 months it will normally be rock solid. I’ve kept all types of euphyllia over the last 30 years and never seen mortality rates so low since the whole ‘ultra’ fad has decended on the hobby. Before leds many of the high end euphyllia looked very drab and would sell for peanuts. LED’s are a double edged sword as whilst they gave us all the colours we love so much they also sadly they have also brought us the chop shop mentality. Simply put, torches and all other euphyllia are simple and very hardy IF….you rest them after import and once cut, let them settle for approx 12 weeks. If it’s good after that it’ll be almost bombproof even in less than lesser managed systems.
I really appreciate and like your channel a lot when I was in the states I had a 55 gallon reef tank it was my baby but now I live in Costa Rica. It's very hard to get do something like that here
Love your inventory new client to your products but got to say great selection. Bought a few things and loving it healthy growing and just wanted to say thank you and will keep coming and recommending. Thank you March
If you’re looking for new video series ideas I would love to see an Evo 13.5 series but with stock out of the box hardware. It seems like most high quality videos you find of them all are upgraded with high end lights and I know there are other people like me who would like to see what one can do out of the box
Looking awesome as always chief. I recently caught my aptasia eating filefish nipping at one of the torches I have. I’m a torch junkie. Will try aqua forest as I hate using the dang salifert. Lol😂
I keep my refractometer in the garage with my tank so I check calibration on mine every time I use it. My hammers are super happy and I have raised my Mg to 1500+. I have used March's advice and I brought back a single head hammer frag that was an 1/8" in diameter and sometime I would look at it and say "Dang it's toast" now it's opening great every day and doubled in size.
Ph may have been overlooked especially night time Ph. LPS are not supposed to get down in the 7.6-7.9 range for optimal health. Ever since I’ve been keeping Ph above 8.1 24/7 my corals have done much better.
Once again another great video I believe I just killed my first coral I had such high hopes for it only been a few days but it just felt completely apart I’m done.
Why won't my torch coral open ? \\ Diagnosing Torch Coral Issues
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A very common question we get here at Fragbox corals answered in this video! www.fragbox.ca