Elegance coral Questions for Elegance coral :)

[elegance coral]

You may be on to something. I believe that Elegance corals do have the ability to absorb nutrients directly from the water. This may help out a lot with corals that are hard to feed. My LFS just talked me into picking up 3 more very ill Elegance corals. I'll pick up some of this stuff and see if it improves their recovery. Thanks for the tip.

 

[gsellers1245]

ill post up the pics in a few minutes, im uploading to photobucket now

 

[gsellers1245]

 

[gsellers1245]

I just looked at the progress so far and there has been alot of progress here with the feeding habits and addition of the radium bulb over the small one and with the addition of tropic marin PRO A & K elements. I hope this thread will help someone understand that feeding an elegance WILL help growth and stability. I know i have learned that i will keep posting my results and findings so we all can hopefully keep these bad boys alive.

 

[elegance coral]

The tentacles of the small one are about twice as long as they were. Good job! I have two like your small one. I have had them for a while. Now I'm slowly increasing the light for them and so far so good. Thanks for taking the time to post updates. This thread shows that it can be done.

 

[gsellers1245]

I hope to get some aussie elegance in the near future so stay tuned!!!

 

[gsellers1245]

ok this weeks update...........Got the second radium on its way and it will go on the right side of the tank where the big elegance is. Hopefully he will take to the change in color and wont stress too much. Here are pics today of both elegance...........

 

[elegance coral]

I think the flow may be just a little strong for the large one. It would open up more if the flow was reduced. You can see how much of the oral disk is visible in these pics. If you reduced the flow so that just the tentacles sway in the flow and not the polyp, it will open up more. You would probably see a large difference in the first day.
How's the feeding going?

 

[gsellers1245]

feeding is going great. Im trying to feed every 3 days. It is really hard to get the perfect flow. the small one is getting perfect flow but it is a really hard task with all the corals i have in the tank. I wish i had the time and money for an elegance only tank I guess thats where this hobby is amazing. Having lots of flow for my sps and tiny flow for the elegance and just the challenge alone is worth the time. Hey if you wanna donate an elegance to me or sell one to me i'm game. Maybe if i can help take in part of different studies for these corals.. let me know
here's march 30th tank pic

Tomorrow ill post a full current tank shot

 

[gsellers1245]

7-2-07 tank shot

 

[gsellers1245]

you also can see the difference with the radium on the left in the second pic

 

[elegance coral]

This is a pic of one of my corals from a while back. It looked much like your small one did when you got it. Now it looks like yours does now. I have seen these corals swell up like the rest so I have been keeping them in dimmer lighting to keep them from swelling. I'm not sure if this is the best long term environment for them though. I believe that my coral and yours has had time to adjust to the light they are in, but I believe they can handle more light. I have slowly, very slowly, been increasing the light on my coral and it seems to be doing well. If I increase the lights to fast the tentacle expansion is greatly decreased. Both of these corals have darkened up from when we first got them. This tells me that they have adapted to an environment with less light than what they came from. I believe the best possible environment for these corals is to be in lighting that is plenty strong enough to fuel their biological needs without burning them. This is the hard part. As dark as these corals are you would think they should have some room to adapt to brighter lights. If you wanted to help me out with this little experiment you could slowly begin increasing the light on the small coral. You have a much better camera than I do, so if you documented its reaction it would be a great help. You would have to do this very slowly. Moving it a few inches closer to the light and watching its reactions. A week or so later if all is well, it could be moved a few more inches closer to the light. Eventually the tentacles should start to fade and the green color on the oral disk should start getting brighter. I'm not sure though because I haven't completed this little experiment. You would have to be very careful. If the jump in light is to drastic the coral will swell up and the tissues will be damaged.

The large coral looks great, other than the flow issue. I have the same problem. It is hard even in my tank to get the flow just right. Flow causes the tentacles to get real long and beautiful, but if it is to strong the polyp wont expand. If the flow is to low the polyp will expand but the tentacles won't get near as long. Trying to get the flow just right in the middle is the hard part. As the coral grows this becomes even more of a problem. One part of the coral will be receiving stronger flow that other parts.

I am still buying Elegance corals myself. I plan on trying to bread these corals. Don't laugh . The more corals I have the greater the odds become of one of them spawning.
I see you live in Florida. What area? I live in Lakeland.

 

[gsellers1245]

im in brandon, like 30 mins away from you....if i take the bike 15 minutes

 

[Trigeek]

This thread is very impressive and my hat is off to you guys for having what appears to be thriving elegance. I've always loved these corals but have shyed away from them because they are known to be difficult. How long have you had these and what do you attribute your successes to?

 

[gsellers1245]

well, i would say superior water quality, placement, flow, feeding time every 3 days and the most important ACCLIMATION TO THE ENVIRONMENT
also have found out some ammino acids and trace elements have boosted size

 

[gsellers1245]

Today's update. I came home late lats night and the big one was swelled up and tentacles were drawn in. 15 minutes later it was back to normal. could it be when i adjusted the flow down and p***ed it off???? or it could have been one of my tangs. Was/ did it expell waste? But the flow is adjusted now and progress the very next day, it is as big as it has ever been
pics? of course i have pics
here it is when it was mad kinda in the middle but it was worse than that

today

 

[gsellers1245]

here is an example of the flow i have it under
big one

little one

 

[Serioussnaps]

great vids...i think it was a response to flow personally if the tentacles went funny on you....leave it alone!!!!!!

 

[elegance coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10372976#post10372976 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gsellers1245
Today's update. I came home late lats night and the big one was swelled up and tentacles were drawn in. 15 minutes later it was back to normal. could it be when i adjusted the flow down and p***ed it off???? or it could have been one of my tangs. Was/ did it expell waste? But the flow is adjusted now and progress the very next day, it is as big as it has ever been
pics? of course i have pics
here it is when it was mad kinda in the middle but it was worse than that

You said you came home late. Were the lights on a little longer than normal? If so this would make sense.

 

[gsellers1245]

no they are on timers and they do fine with 10 hours of halides but im gonna cut back to 8 hours here in about the next 2 weeks and observe the reaction. And i will document any change in size or color