Lol. The torch was satisfying at the time, but overall the experience was still negative. And my goodness, the “are you sure you still enjoy this hobby” questions that followed…those were not ideal.
I have no idea why they tend to take off in some tanks and not others. I will say that in that system, I was using live rock that was 10 years old and I had not added new corals in at least four years. There were none that I saw, then just a few….then a few more…then before you know it Chris is out on the lawn like a crazy person taking a torch to his live rock…happened over the course of a few years.
The ones I had were lightly fluorescent with like a greenish blue hue to them and retracted into a sort of leathery tube (especially before burning to a crisp). I think they may have been photosynthetic. Fwiw I did not feed any fine powdered food to the system— so that wasn’t fueling them.
To be clear, I do not advocate for the torch method.
We can’t sequence mine! They are gone. As is that tank.