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jorahx4

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GabeB said:
Who is the source for those images? Those torches are amazing... Are they for sale?
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A guy I know from fb he sells them, but they aren’t cheap. Want me to put you in contact with him?


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glee said:
Does it matter if it is Aussie vs Indo torch?
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No... i haven't had an issues. Except the brown jelly.

My guess was a new torch i got from AC that spread. Took out 3, including the aussie gold. Oddly, only torches... no hammers or spawns were harmed
 
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I bought a 3 headed branching purple hammer from a local reefer about 6 months ago. I finally lost the last head this week to brown jelly. It was living peacefully with great polyp extension and looked happy (if that’s possible) with my other hammers. When I was down to one last head, I decided to move it to a corner all by itself but after a week, I noticed poor polyp extension on a small area and the next day BJD.

I didn’t dip it. I was hoping that cutting the infected branch would save it. No other hammers, frogspawn, or torch seem affected.
 
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My torches was never happy in the same tank as other lps, even in 187g, maybe I should just move it to the sps tank that’s free of lps corals


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ashburn2k said:
My torches was never happy in the same tank as other lps, even in 187g, maybe I should just move it to the sps tank that’s free of lps corals


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I run my tank as mix, no skimmer, occasional carbon and manual dosing... all my stuff doing pretty well despite the likely high nutriuents
 
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woooooooowzers, now i really want a tank again.
i have never seen torches like that, and dare say they weren't even in circulation 7 years ago.
 
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Coral reefer said:
Do you even have a reef any more?
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nope. i have a 500g softie tank at a dentists office, but he has put angels and pufffers in there and there isn't much left.
i brought most of my collection to another clients 250g reef but he kept meddling with the tank (like adding a flame angel from 6th ave, some coral loaded with flatworms, etc etc) and i lost so much i dropped him.

i have been contemplating setting up a VERY large tank lately though.
 
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Have you guys read about how softies have chemical warfare on torches that end up killing them? That could be a possibility as well.


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jorahx4

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NelsonCh said:
Have you guys read about how softies have chemical warfare on torches that end up killing them? That could be a possibility as well.


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Never heard that. Do you have a link to the article so I can read it


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Bruce Spiegelman said:
The fact that it was brown die-off that was easy to blow off sure sounds like brown jelly. This is bolstered by the fact that it went from one torch colony to another. I would treat it the same way I'd treat Brown Jelly.
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I agree seems like this
Euphyllia can also kill other Euphyllia when little pieces of it float around
 
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