Todd's Torch... lighting, flow?

[flameangel9]

I managed to pick up a couple of heads of Todd's Torch. I'm wondering what flow and lighting some of you folks have had luck with?

 

[Capt_Cully]

IME you'll find it tolerates a variety of situations. Mine is up high in low to mod flow. It has lost some of it's brilliance or "todd's" color, but has excellent growth. Others have it in high flow and it has loooong streaming tentacles.

Only advice I'd give is keep it a little lower vs higher light. Flow is up to you, you can't go wrong.

 

[jdoenumber2]

Beauty of Todds Torch is that it responds differently depending on flow and lighting. Ive had mine all over the place in tank.

 

[frofan]

Bump, I can't seem to get my Todds to extend its tentacles more than an inch. I had it low light and low flow with no luck and moved it to high light medium/high flow and still no luck. Has anyone else had this issue?

 

[wetbehindears]

Torches love random medium to high indirect flow.

 

[museumguy]

This is my Todd's torch, I took the picture last year. It had like 2 or 3 Koralia 8's (big daddy's) aimed to sort of crash the water together in its general area but not right on top of it. That one tentacle was easily 2 feet long. It was about 2.5 feet below a 1000w 14k halide.

 

[AIR-FX]

frofan........i am having same problem...........in my old tank my TT used to be super open and extended.......dont know why it is always retracted now

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

frofan........i am having same problem...........in my old tank my TT used to be super open and extended.......dont know why it is always retracted now

is the fish stocking list EXACTLY the same in both aquariums?

do you have an Angelfish or Bi-color Blenny?

FWIW my Powder Blue Tang would pick on my T's Torch until I moved the coral to another location.
The same fish never bothered any of my other torch corals or LPS.

 

[AIR-FX]

no most of my fish died from PBlue gave out a heavy dose odf ick. i have a mimic tang,yellow tang,starry blenny,scooter blenny,and 2 clowns

 

[mr86mister]

To get the long flow tentacles it has been apparent that a higher random flow area helps keep the tentacles long. Of course the first thing you want to look at are parameters. Once those are in check then you can work on lighting and flow. I have put mine in many different spots throughout my tank and have moved koralias all over to change flow. Mine currently loves being up front in random flow about 10 inches below a 150w Halide.