Hi. This is my first torch (3 heads) and after a week I noticed that some of the limbs are dark in colour and not fully extended (see pic). The questionable limbs all appear to be near the centre of the heads, all the outer limbs seem to be doing great. Should I be concerned? If this isn't normal, what should I be doing differently?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Joe
looks fine to me I wouldnt worry till it stops opening, unfortunately torchs can from huge heads to nothing extremely fast, but so far it looks fine
One of the bigest problems with any type of torch coral
is called "Brown jelly desease"......which in most cases
tends to wipe complete colonies of torch coral in the tanks.
I had a large colony of almost 13 heads and it died within 20 days.
I did everything possible flow/additives/waterchanges/and even
some coral diping but no luck......
torch are hard to keep for some people, others have better luck with them.
in your case lets hope is only discolouration and not brown jelly.
regards
I don't see anything wrong with the color the coral is going to be naturally darker when not fully extended looks perfectly normal but again things can go from normal to abnormal quite fast though just keep an eye on it