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WYSIWYG
Malaysian Banana Torch
Euphyllia glabrescens · Torch
Aquacultured and maintained by Lunar Tide Aquatics. The photographed coral represents the listing style shown for this product.
Lunar Tide Coral Care Guide
- Arrival: Open the shipment promptly, verify temperature, and acclimate the coral to your system without exposing shipping water to the display.
- Placement: Begin in a stable, lower-stress position and adjust lighting and flow gradually while observing tissue extension and coloration.
- Stability: Maintain consistent salinity, temperature, alkalinity, calcium, and nutrient availability. Avoid rapid corrective changes.
- Observation: Inspect the coral daily during acclimation and move it only when its response indicates that placement should change.
Every aquarium is different. Use the coral's response and your measured water conditions to guide final placement and husbandry.
WYSIWYG coral care profile
Malaysian Banana Torch Care Guide
Malaysian Banana Torch is a torch coral that does best with stable reef chemistry, indirect movement, and clear space for long sweeper tentacles.
- Care level
- Moderate
- Suggested PAR
- 100–200
- Water flow
- Moderate, indirect
- Placement
- Lower to middle reef
- Aggression
- High
- Feeding
- Optional, up to weekly
What Malaysian Banana Torch needs
Give the polyps enough indirect flow to move without folding hard against the skeleton. Start near the lower end of the PAR range and increase slowly. Leave several inches of clearance from other corals because sweepers can reach well beyond the daytime polyp footprint.
Stable water targets
Use these as a steady operating range, not numbers to chase from day to day.
- Temperature
- 76–79°F
- Salinity
- 1.025–1.026 SG
- Alkalinity
- 8–9 dKH
- Calcium
- 420–450 ppm
- Magnesium
- 1300–1400 ppm
- Nitrate
- 5–15 ppm
- Phosphate
- 0.03–0.10 ppm
How to acclimate Malaysian Banana Torch
- Inspect the bag and coral on arrival. Photograph any shipping concern before opening the bag, then follow the store's live-arrival instructions.
- Match temperature, inspect the coral under white light, and use a coral dip that is appropriate for the coral group. Do not add shipping water to the display.
- Begin below the final light intensity for the first several days. Move or raise intensity gradually while watching tissue and polyp response.
Malaysian Banana Torch care questions
Where should I place Malaysian Banana Torch?
Start at Lower to middle reef. Leave room for growth and move the coral only after observing its response to the current position.
How much flow does Malaysian Banana Torch need?
Use Moderate, indirect flow. The goal is steady gas exchange and debris removal without folded tissue, exposed skeleton, or polyps held in one direction.
Should I feed Malaysian Banana Torch?
Recommended frequency: Optional, up to weekly. Feed only when the coral shows a response, use appropriately sized food, and remove uneaten food before it irritates the tissue.