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Unread 04/01/2020, 10:31 AM   #1
gareth.hubbarde
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Lps growth

Got a torch that seems to be doing very nicely, I was just wondering how they grow, are they like hammers and grow new heads over time? How quickly do they grow? My hammers have tiny heads but nothing really to say gone from 5 heads to 6 etc.

My acan is growing nicely up to 10 heads from 5 I bought it as.

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Unread 04/01/2020, 11:11 AM   #2
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Yep they’ll branch out like hammers/frogspawn and get new heads over time. I would say they grow at a medium to slow rate depending on if you feed them and how well they do in the tank


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Unread 04/03/2020, 09:51 AM   #3
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If you start with 1 or 3 heads on any euphyllia, you'll notice that they never seem to grow...until they do. Then they take off. It's not that they're really growing slower or faster, it's just more apparent when you have more heads to divide. I remember my torch growing slower than frogspawn or hammers, but that may have been due to it being a single head when I got it.
In my current tank, I started with 2-3 heads of hammer that was about golf ball-sized. Just recently, it divided and grew a new head or two, so it practically doubled in 2 months. It didn't really grow much prior to the division. I'd say it stayed the same for 4-6 months. I'll have to watch it since I've never paid attention, but they may grow in phases where the head will spend several months preparing to divide, then 'quickly' divide over a couple of months. That's just a guess on my part, though. Of all the years I've kept these corals, I've never really paid attention to growth timelines.

I've noticed that favia, favites, chalice corals, etc. just kind of 'ooze' away from the parent frag, then backfill skeleton. Acans and blastos tend to just bud off. All of them seem to grow at a fairly constant, slow rate.


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