torch longest at day time?

[sweeper7]

is this normal, my Torch is at its longest, tentacle wise during the day and at night or early when I wake up while the lights are off it is at its shortest. I have read that at night they should be the longest.

During the day it is nearly 4-5 inches long and at night maybe 1 inch long at most.

is this normal?

[VGT]

Mine behaves the same way - no clue if its normal or not.

[sporto0]

What you get at night is sweeper tentacles, most Torch Corals I've ever kept extend the longest during the daylight.

[sweeper7]

thats the funny part, my sweeper tentacles are during the day not at night lol

[VGT]

I never see the sweepers, on my torch or my galaxia.

[NanoReefWanabe]

thats the funny part, my sweeper tentacles are during the day not at night lol

from what i have seen on my torch corals, the tentacles are always out during the day (3-4" long depending on the size of the coral)...that is how they collect food and light...during the night i have seen my coral deflate to the point the tentacles are about an inch or so long and then it will inflate a single tentacle to about 8 or so inches long and go to war with anything around it...

as for galaxia, and hydnophoras...they emit a clear filament thread like sweeper, and they can be crazy long...

[crzytrace]

it is actually a very cool thing to watch a galaxia and a frogspawn fight. I have good pic of both of them attacking the other but cant find it at the moment. I have separated them, and neither have extended sweepers since :)

[Wet Dreamer]

Mine is always only fully extended when the lights are on as well. In regards to the sweeper tentacles, I lost my first Torch due to my Frogspawn killing it with its sweeper tentacles. I had no clue why it was dying until one night I saw it getting stung from the frogspawn, but it was too late to save it!

[Catchoftheday]

My torch always has its sweeper Tentacles out day and night

[disc1]

Those aren't the sweepers. Those are just the regular tentacles. The sweepers are much longer, thinner, and deadlier.

[Catchoftheday]

Those aren't the sweepers. Those are just the regular tentacles. The sweepers are much longer, thinner, and deadlier.


What makes you think they are not ? They are longer and thin and the others are not they are short and fat

[disc1]

I guess I'm not seeing this long thin sweeper you speak of in that pic. I just see the regular tentacles and one or two that are a little long.

[disc1]

Here's the best pic I could find quick.

http://library.thinkquest.org/25713/media/agresja1.jpg

[Catchoftheday]

Here's the best pic I could find quick.

http://library.thinkquest.org/25713/media/agresja1.jpg


Yes this is how they look but only its not a hammer coral . But i doos look like that i was really hard to get a good picture with my phone

[jamesdean3]

+1 those aren't really sweepers, just normal tentacles. +1 disc1 pic of sweeper arms/ being right