coloring up a torch?

[RoscoPColtrane]

I have a torch coral I've had for about a year and a half, it has gone from 4 heads to over 20. The coloration is bland, is there anything I can do to color it up? I feed it once in a great while but that only seems to induce growth. I drip kalk but do not monitor my Ca or Alk levels closely.

 

[thecichlidpleco]

Lighting is what your looking for not necessarily feeding. Have a more blue combination rather than 10k stuff.

 

[RoscoPColtrane]

my lighting is good, 2x175Watt 10K reeflux halides and 2x65W actinics. My other corals look good, including another smaller torch frag. I guess it's a possibility the coral just has drab colors.

 

[thecichlidpleco]

The feeding is working, as you said it went to 20 heads, so you dont have a problem there. Your lighting is fine, I use 10k and get great growth and am pleased with the coloration, but if you want the torch and even others to pop a little bit more, switch to 14k or 20k. How old are your current bulbs? Like you said, may just be the specific coral, if the smaller frag is from the same torch then there might be a problem with the larger one.

 

[2crazyreefers]

Yeh what thecichlidpleco said.

 

[Hogfish77]

Maybe you have a brown torch variety instead of the green torch? Just guessing....