Elegance coral show off thread

[drouner]

I feel in love with the Aussie ones last year at a LFS down in Tampa. I was tempted to buy on then but my tank was full of SPS. Now that I got the "Been there, Done the SPS thing" t-shirt, I've started selling them off.

Of course I run across this thread and I guess it is time to start looking for an Aussie Elegance again.


My dumb question for the day is:

Can you frag elegance corals, say if it gets to big?

 

[PayasoDelMar]

Can clowns host these?

 

[Mojo Jojo]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11971333#post11971333 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by PayasoDelMar
Can clowns host these?

Kid they are out your league... look the other way... I better not get asked about them

 

[jadeguppy]

Can you frag elegance corals, say if it gets to big?

Yes, it has been done.

Can clowns host these?

I've seen picture of them hosting in elegances. Mine was already hosting in a frogspawn and open brain.

 

[elegance coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11971333#post11971333 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by PayasoDelMar
Can clowns host these?

This is a very poor pic of one of my Elegance corals hosting a pair of clowns. This relationship usually turns out poorly for the Elegance. In my opinion this is not a wise thing to allow.

 

[drouner]

Okay I blame this thread on my spending habits!!

Here is the Aussie Elegance I picked up yesterday at the new LFS in town. $80!!

Now my question is how much flow will these guys take? As you can see in the picture the flow is pretty strong. I've turned my Vortech pretty much all the way down.

 

[chris wright]

Aussies are found higher up in the reef, so they can withstand stronger flows than indio's, but a vortech may be to strong. If the polyps are getting a good sway in the water, but not getting blown over, than you have hit the sweet spot.

Also, most reefers keep their Cati's on the bottom of the tank, especially considering how much the polyps can extend. If the flow was not to strong, the coral on the left would be getting stung by now to, by the way.

Polyp extension is going to be your best guide, if it's short the flow and position may not be suitable, more so the flow, so play around with the vortech. If your polyps are getting out to 3-4 inches in the next few days, then I wouldn't change a thing

 

[JM68]

Got this little guy about a week ago and it's doing well so far. I had to pull 2 gal crabs out of it the day after i brought it home, but since then its been great. I was told it came in with an aussie shipment, but who knows if it actually came from australia or if it was just shipped through there. Any length of time i should wait before i get my hopes up that its healthy and going to make it?

 

[ReefEnabler]

my elegance has not been opening up as much the last week.

I think I might have made a mistake when I tried feeding it some squid I got from the asian market. A couple days after feeding it I saw what appeared to be a few 'white streaks' emanating from the mouths I fed under the tissue. Could that be food stuck in the digestive track that it doesn't agree with?

I'm not sure if it was that or my crappy glass heater. I saw the temp rise to 84 this week. I've been turning the dial on the heater down ALOT, and the tank is still 82, even though I the dial on my glass heater is at 70

thankfully I just got my ranco and some aquamedic titanium heaters. hopefully should never have that problem again.

It's starting to bounce back a little.

 

[ReefEnabler]

also just got a bunch of new test kits and spent the last hour testing parameters.

pH 8.05 (sometimes gets as low as 7.9 at night, but is usually around 8.2-4 during day). Pinpoint pH monitor.
alk: 8dKH, API
Calcium: 380ppm, API
Salinity: 1.025, sybon refracto
Amm: 0, API
nitrites: 0, API
nitrates: 0, API
Phosphates: 0, API
Silicate: <0.03ppm (salifert)
Strontium: 0-3ppm (salifert)

I know my strontium is low, today is the first time I've tested it (what a pain!!!!) and I've never added supplements for it. how much does it matter to an elegance?

Anything else look funny? Could my water be too clean(lol)?

still gotta test for Mg and copper.

Ryan

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12036506#post12036506 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JM68
Got this little guy about a week ago and it's doing well so far. I had to pull 2 gal crabs out of it the day after i brought it home, but since then its been great. I was told it came in with an aussie shipment, but who knows if it actually came from australia or if it was just shipped through there. Any length of time i should wait before i get my hopes up that its healthy and going to make it?

your tank is the same size as mine--just wondering how close you have the elegance to the substrate
nice colour

 

[elegance coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12001826#post12001826 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by drouner
Okay I blame this thread on my spending habits!!

Here is the Aussie Elegance I picked up yesterday at the new LFS in town. $80!!

Now my question is how much flow will these guys take? As you can see in the picture the flow is pretty strong. I've turned my Vortech pretty much all the way down.

I agree with Chris. If the tentacles are all pointing in the same direction, it's a pretty good sign that the flow is to strong. Beautiful Elegance BTW.

 

[elegance coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12036744#post12036744 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RyanBrucks
also just got a bunch of new test kits and spent the last hour testing parameters.

pH 8.05 (sometimes gets as low as 7.9 at night, but is usually around 8.2-4 during day). Pinpoint pH monitor.
alk: 8dKH, API
Calcium: 380ppm, API
Salinity: 1.025, sybon refracto
Amm: 0, API
nitrites: 0, API
nitrates: 0, API
Phosphates: 0, API
Silicate: <0.03ppm (salifert)
Strontium: 0-3ppm (salifert)

I know my strontium is low, today is the first time I've tested it (what a pain!!!!) and I've never added supplements for it. how much does it matter to an elegance?

Anything else look funny? Could my water be too clean(lol)?

still gotta test for Mg and copper.

Ryan

The white line in the tissue running between the mouth and tentacles is nothing to worry about. Strontium is just as important to Elegance corals as it is to other stony corals.

 

[elegance coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12036697#post12036697 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RyanBrucks
my elegance has not been opening up as much the last week.

I think I might have made a mistake when I tried feeding it some squid I got from the asian market. A couple days after feeding it I saw what appeared to be a few 'white streaks' emanating from the mouths I fed under the tissue. Could that be food stuck in the digestive track that it doesn't agree with?

One more thing. They can be sensitive to the phosphates we put in sea food as a preservative. Try to make sure that any food you feed them hasn't been treated with phosphates.

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12038301#post12038301 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by elegance coral
One more thing. They can be sensitive to the phosphates we put in sea food as a preservative. Try to make sure that any food you feed them hasn't been treated with phosphates.

esp frozen food like mysis--make sure you rinse it off with ro water before using--they can contain alot of phosphates and nitrates from their breeding tanks

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12038231#post12038231 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by elegance coral
The white line in the tissue running between the mouth and tentacles is nothing to worry about. Strontium is just as important to Elegance corals as it is to other stony corals.

if we are doing 20 per cent water changes every other week do we still need to supplement strontium?

 

[ReefEnabler]

"if we are doing 20 per cent water changes every other week do we still need to supplement strontium?"

good question. think it really depends on your salt brand. Not sure if theres any recent-enough salt studies to rely on for that.

Next time I do a water change I'll do a strontium check on my instant ocean mix. I would have done it tonight but I had already done it for the main tank before my WC. Took me about 35 minutes for the whole test because there are 5 separate parts to the kit and some require 15 minutes between additions.


but what I do like about the salifert strontium test is that it gives you a calcium reading about halfway through the test. My API test said 380 calcium and the Sr test said 400. It was my first time doing the test so I wouldn't be suprised if I made some minor errors.


p.s. i dont recall there being a reef tank in Home Alone! hehe j/k

 

[JM68]

your tank is the same size as mine--just wondering how close you have the elegance to the substrate

the elegance itself is about 4-5" off the bottom, you can actually c the sand in the lower left hand corner of the picture. i wanted to put it in the sand, but my sandbed isn't deep enough(1") to bury the skeleton enough to support it and keep it upright so i had to put it in a crevice on the rock.

 

[chris wright]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12038894#post12038894 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RyanBrucks
"if we are doing 20 per cent water changes every other week do we still need to supplement strontium?"

good question. think it really depends on your salt brand. Not sure if theres any recent-enough salt studies to rely on for that.

Next time I do a water change I'll do a strontium check on my instant ocean mix. I would have done it tonight but I had already done it for the main tank before my WC. Took me about 35 minutes for the whole test because there are 5 separate parts to the kit and some require 15 minutes between additions.


but what I do like about the salifert strontium test is that it gives you a calcium reading about halfway through the test. My API test said 380 calcium and the Sr test said 400. It was my first time doing the test so I wouldn't be suprised if I made some minor errors.


p.s. i dont recall there being a reef tank in Home Alone! hehe j/k

I've found that instant ocean is low in the main parameters, so I'd say its low on the minor elements as well.

 

[erichatesmice]

Here's mine. I've had him for 5 months.