torch coral problem?

[mattwils71]

hello fellow lps keepers!!
my frogspawn and torch coral have been in my tank for no more than 4 hours and its tentacles aren't out and for the torch coral it has holes open which i think are its mouth ??
is this normal, how long would it take until they fully spread there tentacles (idk what they are called)
cheeeers

 

[mattwils71]

These are the corals is the torch coral at a to steep an angle???

 

[Clownemone]

You're correct, those are the mouths. Leave them be and check back tomorrow : )

 

[E Rosewater]

Watch the "mouths" does anything come out of them? They look like barnacles to me.

Also the picture all the way to the right is a Frogspawn.

 

[mattwils71]

Yes ik and nothing is coming out and barnicles???????

 

[E Rosewater]

If nothings coming out they're either not barnacles or they are dead. I've had some hitchhike on Euphylia's in the past. I lost a head on my torch that had one next to it. Not sure if it crowded out the head and killed it or it died for other reasons.

And I see you did say Frogspawn in the original post. Sorry for being that guy that didn't read closely enough.

 

[mattwils71]

Haha dw about it and wait... What ... Dead??? What would the stuff coming out be???

 

[mattwils71]

I think there is more than 1 mouth is that normal????

 

[E Rosewater]

Barnacles are weird little filter feeders. It kind of looks like a fan that sticks out of the hole and then gets sucked back in really fast.

Each head would have a mouth in the center unless it's splitting, then it would have two mouths that move further apart until it splits.

 

[mattwils71]

I think it has split the skeleton is in a very weird and squashed v shape so u think everything is fine with my torch?

 

[mattwils71]

U can see 3 mouths on that pic????

 

[mattwils71]

Does that mean I will get 3 heads

 

[mattwils71]

It still hasn't opened :O its been 24 hours now ((

 

[trinidiver]

why have you opened 3 posts on your torch corals?????

 

[mattwils71]

Idek aha I forgot I has this one and the other one I didn't think it sent so I created a new one -_-