Rest in peace Jake. You’ve influenced many new reefers like me. You are missed buddy.

I was swimming in the Pacific and saw some of these attached to a rock waving gently in the current. I thought to myself is it a friend, or anemone... :)

Miss you

I love your reefing style. You truly know how to put it all together.

Love me some gold torches! Crazy how the prices have gone so high just in the last few years! Could scoop these up for a bill 4 years ago! 🤙😎

Great job Jake on the camera work while trying to hold onto the torch. Beautiful looking coral 👍

Thanks for bringing us along with you while you fragged that stunning golden beast.

Très belle vidéo Jake et encore merci !!! 👍👍👍

Beautiful torches Jake. Another awesome video

Wow are those Golden's amazing! That saw really does a great job!✌💜💜💜🌿

First thing to get dragged at the Reef Builders Studio GOLD TORCH 👍👍👍

I'm really enjoying your channel. I just found you a couple of days ago. Everything looks beautiful!

Just the video i have been wanting to see lol thanks bro.

It's nice shot of your right hand

keep these videos coming

Impatiently waiting

You're the Bob Ross of coral cutting!

Nice work. Couldnt imagine cutting up a piece like that. You made it look easy.

@ReefBuildersVideo

4 жыл бұрын

Did I? Woulda been hella easier if I wasn't filming at the same time, but thanks for the enccouragement

Ok Jake, I've seen fish rooms where I've been jealous of, but I gotta say I'm super jelly of your whole fragging area. You got a nice big counter, a tank to hold corals in while you're working, got the bandsaw, just wish I had the room for all of that (darn wife!)

@ReefBuildersVideo

4 жыл бұрын

thanks mike, it's a work in progress and one day I'll do a tour of JUST the workshop area, once the vision is fully realized.

I like using the 4 corners. It will give the effect that the coral is even bigger once it settles and gets plump

And here I get nervous to have my corals even out of the water for any amount of time...

What are those weird little things squirming around on the bandsaw after you drag the coral?

Really loved this video! Do you dip in any kind of iodine mixture after cutting?

That must have been super superglue as mine usually takes loads to get a good grip but as always your channel is really informative and I look forward to every one thanks but I am sure I have seen you frag a holy trail torch in the studio but I could be wrong

Hi jake love the videos, Here in the uk. Any tips on keeping these Aussie golds as a lot of people have trouble keeping them over here. 👍

Great video Jake :)

Another awesome video! Are you coming to RAP in Chicago next weekend?

i Wish reefing was like that here in brazil.

@LucasSousaS205

4 жыл бұрын

Lucas Souza quem sabe um dia Souza com Z 🤣

hey I love your video put me to sleep.

Please, what are the fish in the tank you placed the frags? Thanks

Can’t believe the hype, just looks like a boring brown coral to me. Maybe I need to see one in the flesh

Hi, Thanks for the great video clips, I am from Australia. How can you safely leave them out of the water when you frag the torches 👍

@ReefBuildersVideo

3 жыл бұрын

just try to get the polyp to withdraw as much as possible beforehand, and then don't let it dry out!

What kind of fish was that in the Euphyllia tank with the stripes and yellow tail?

Hey Jake I'm in Colorado. Where's your studio man

I am new but couldn't see anything for your hand. Tugger Edinburgh, Scotland

Jake how long can these corals stay out of water without harming them?? Its amazingly beautiful...I have a 4 year old gold torch..its why I'm asking about this , I wasn't trying to criticize you I really wanted to learn, thank you ❤✌ also I meant to ask , mine had a baby...a baby torch came out of nowhere??? Is this possible? How do they reproduce???

@ReefBuildersVideo

4 жыл бұрын

fresh collected torches often release fertilized larvae in the aquarium. It's true I could have been a lot more gentle with this colony of coral, but if you saw what they go through from collection to initial transportation, i was using kid gloves by comparison

@litoloco4fish

4 жыл бұрын

@@ReefBuildersVideo wow Jake thank you for your reply!!! I can only imagine you've lived this ....I was just curious is all...love what you're doing with your showroom....many blessings

so you use ceramic or limestone tiles are they safe Jake...Nice video though. thanks for sharing bro.

hi, it seems that this aussie gold torch is dying to most of the people, do you know why? what parameters must a tank have to hold it? maybe it is an animal that lives in areas of murky water? thank you

Jake are these tanks tied into each other

very well don good , I am 21 years old and live in Korea. I like the sea when I am young and I want to work related to the sea.

They say aussia Torch are delicate any new update ?

Hey jake what is that thing crawling at 7:40 on the saw

@SteHughes90

4 жыл бұрын

Stomata snail

@ReefBuildersVideo

4 жыл бұрын

Stomatella shelled nudibranch, my favorite kind of reef critters

🆒👏👏👏

One thing I could never figure is how you can get these torches to grow this big as in your tank? I can grow sps but never been lucky with torches.

@bluejack-ve7so

Жыл бұрын

I'm the complete opposite. Lol torches grow like weeds. Really any LPS

What band saw do you use for fragging?

@Hayabusa2049

4 жыл бұрын

Gryphon AQUASAW DIAMOND BAND FRAG SAW

Just curious. Is there a long tentacle and short tentacle torch? Ive had torches where the tentacles are like 4 inches long last time and now i have torches that only have 1.5 inch tentacles. Then few days ago i saw someone post about long tentacle torches and i just thought hmm did i have the long tentacle variety last time and noe have the short tentacle variety? But im not sure if its a legit thing or not. I just bought 3 new torches last week and they all only expand to like 1.5 inches compared to my previous torches which had way longer tentacles

@Joshthereefer

4 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Lee depends on the locality collected. Indos have longer tentacles than aussies

@ReefBuildersVideo

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think anyone really knows - all torches are the same species, and the East Australian torches usually retain tight short tentacles while Indo and West Austalian torches get tentacles that are really long, but it's not a given. Strong flow seems to correlate to longer tentacles to some degree.

@jonathanlee97

4 жыл бұрын

Joshthebox mine are local. I live in west malaysia and we get them from east malaysia. A stone throws away from indo. But soon i wont be able to get them anymore since the govt is gonna cancel the permits for coral collectors. Not sure if the permit is just for export or for collecting and everything tho

@jonathanlee97

4 жыл бұрын

Reef Builders i see. im gonna head down to get more torches soon. I like torches so much for some reason. Theyre selling aussie gold torch frags for 30usd each. May or may not get one. 30usd is alot here lol. The normal torches are 7 usd per head.

@Dan-fv7cp

4 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanlee97 going rate for a gold torch is aroun £150-£170 pounds in the UK, and similar bin Europe, way out of my budget lol

Is the plan to sell-your corals or just for display ? If so where I buy thanks

@ReefBuildersVideo

4 жыл бұрын

As my local reefer friends can tell you, I don't sell corals, only give them to friends or trade.

@MrV8eater

4 жыл бұрын

Too bad I live in ft.lauderdale FL 😰

Please send to Indonesia? is Possible?

why not just have water in the transport container?

Do you sell corals or juat doing news about reefing?

@ReefBuildersVideo

4 жыл бұрын

Just creative and original reef aquarium content

Hey Jake! Are you gonna be at RAP Chicago next weekend? 🤓👍

@ReefBuildersVideo

4 жыл бұрын

see you there

It’s sad to see a big and beautiful colonies cut up. Bigger the better

You are using a band saw to cut a euphyllia .......? Um I realise you have the hardware there and need to show it off , but a better way to do it is use a screw driver and just put the end of the screw driver between the Branch's and twist ...what I just described could and should be done under water so the coral isn't having to leave it's aquatic world that it evolved in .... close up the coral.as.best you can before you start dividing , just my $.02 ....

@lchamp7946

4 жыл бұрын

I don’t think he’s showing off at all. Breaking by using the method you suggest would create uneven surfaces, rather than the flat surfaces that he needs to easily glue to tiles. Most professional aquaculturist use the bandsaw in the same way Jake does. It works and doesn’t harm the corals in the least bit.

@lchamp7946

4 жыл бұрын

Adam Cowley nice (expensive) pick up. 😁 Hope that it does well for you!

I’m so sick of all these ads, disliked video

@Christian-sr6pd

3 жыл бұрын

Then get the paid version of KZread and don’t complain