torch growth and duncan growth

[johnson19]

Okay so I have had my torch and Duncan's for over a year now and I can't get them to grow more heads. Everything else in my tank is growning just not these two. My torch has four heads on it. I got it cheap as a rescue it had two heads that had died. And my Duncan has three heads on it.... I spot feed once maybe twice a week. When feeding I mix up red sea reef energy cyclopsies and some misses shrimp. Any advice or anything would be great :angryfire:
Thanks

 

[QPWithCheeseQP]

I think torches just take a long time to start growing in a new tank, I picked up a torch that was dying 6 months ago and the tissue it had lost just started regrowing a week ago. They seem to be really slow moving corals in my experience, I feed mine a couple times a week and I think it really helps them. Ive never owned a duncan so I cant help there. Oh I know its not a torch but I have a branching hammer (still a euphyllia) that took about 8 months to start growing in my tank with regular feeding.

 

[rogersb]

Torches grow slow, me and a buddy bought one together a year ago and it hasn't put on any new heads. Duncans should be growing quickly though. Do you do regular water changes or use two part?

 

[johnson19]

I have a 125 DT and do between 40 and 60 gal a month in water changes. I use red sea coral pro salt and ro/di. Only thing I add is reef engery and prime when doing a water change.other then that my mag and alk And all water peramiters are good. It has me stumped. The Duncans open up to the size of a quarter maybe a little bigger

 

[QPWithCheeseQP]

I have a 125 DT and do between 40 and 60 gal a month in water changes. I use red sea coral pro salt and ro/di. Only thing I add is reef engery and prime when doing a water change.other then that my mag and alk And all water peramiters are good. It has me stumped. The Duncans open up to the size of a quarter maybe a little bigger

How much light/flow is it getting?

 

[charliet21]

Maybe shoulf try moving it. Ive hsd mine for 6 months and already has 4 new heads

 

[jbfloor]

I have the opposite problem. I cannot get my SPS to grow, my Chalices grow slowly, but my torches now grow really fast. One of them split twice (from one head to four) in less than three months after not doing much for the first 6 months. A new torch I recently added almost doubled in size in weeks, though has not split yet.

I put them low in the tank with good, turbulent flow and spot feed mysis and regular pellets. They'll eat anything. I also use two-part + Mg and add a vitamin mix to my food. Other than that nothing special.

PH: 7.9-8.1
DKH: 9.0-9.5
Ca: 400-450
Mg: 1450+
PO4: 0.0
NO3: undetectable

 

[QPWithCheeseQP]

I have the opposite problem. I cannot get my SPS to grow, my Chalices grow slowly, but my torches now grow really fast. One of them split twice (from one head to four) in less than three months after not doing much for the first 6 months. A new torch I recently added almost doubled in size in weeks, though has not split yet.

I put them low in the tank with good, turbulent flow and spot feed mysis and regular pellets. They'll eat anything. I also use two-part + Mg and add a vitamin mix to my food. Other than that nothing special.

PH: 7.9-8.1
DKH: 9.0-9.5
Ca: 400-450
Mg: 1450+
PO4: 0.0
NO3: undetectable

I wish mine would grow like that. The hammer I have is growing fast and as I understand they have the same requirements so whats the deal with torches?

 

[Art13]

As for the duncan, I have one that after a month has grown one head and two more are starting to branch off of it. To give you an idea of my tank, its a 60 gallon with 70 watts of 50/50 fluorescent bulbs on it (until the led's i ordered 3 weeks ago come in), i haven't dosed anything, 10% weekly changes and i haven't even started testing for a reef yet. No refugium, just a canister with matrix, carbon, and rowaphos, as well as a eshopps skimmer. I don't know what could be going on and maybe they are just stubborn sometimes but i have what most people would say would be less than ideal conditions and he is still taking off. Perhaps maybe you have him in too high of lighting or he never got acclimated to it? That would be my only guess, seeing how mine is flourishing under regular fluorescent lighting.

 

[duckmeat]

i bought a single head of duncan about 1 year ago. almost immediately it sprouted to 7 heads then..... nothing for 10 mos. i re- aquascaped 2 weeks ago moved it a little higher in the display and it sprouted a new head. so maybe its just not in an ideal location. as for my torch (todds) i got it with 2 heads at the same time as my duncan, and its now 5 heads

 

[KirbyBTF]

I picked up a 5 head duncan about a month ago, and have since seen three new heads beginning to "sprout". It's a 15g cube with two nano powerheads (equaling about 900gph), lots of flow. Lighting is one 14,000k LED and one deep blue ??,???k LED. I spot feed each head daily with squid, and use reef chilli daily. They open up to a little larger than a quarter. I've seen varying results with flow and lighting, however I placed mine near the bottom of the tank so they get med-high lighting and med flow. Can't say for sure thats what Duncan's need, but this is what worked for me.