superedge88
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That is very cool! Any snails that fall on my elegance corals don't last long.
Elegance coral show off thread
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Dante_JoseCuerv
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Well, I'm gonna jump in here. I just got a small elegance today and I put it about mid-way up in my 90 gallon. Now there isn't a LOT of light because during the day I get direct or near-direct sunlight in the tank so I keep some of the lights off.
I put it in this evening and about 20 minutes later it swelled up very nicely. I fed it some brine and it took care of those pretty well. I'll be posting some pics once I find my camera but I'm really excited. It's taken to my tank VERY well in the past few hours so let's hope it takes to my tank for at least a year or so.
I put it in this evening and about 20 minutes later it swelled up very nicely. I fed it some brine and it took care of those pretty well. I'll be posting some pics once I find my camera but I'm really excited. It's taken to my tank VERY well in the past few hours so let's hope it takes to my tank for at least a year or so.
Aquarist007
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very cool picture for sure--and here I have been worried about the size of pieces of shrimp I have been feeding my elegance--guess this shows you don't have to
ReefEnabler
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Ive found they just spit out some of the shrimp if you give a piece thats too big.
the other day I was feeding a leather and a ricordia with reef chilli, which is a freeze dried mix of phyto and zooplankton. basiaclly about the consistency of salt. you mix it in a bottle with tank water and then just squirt it at corals.
I didnt think the elegance would be able to eat stuff so small, but my girlfriend said "why not try it" so I did, and certainly observed a feeding response from the elegance. maybe they are able to pull much smaller things from the water than I thought.
never seen mine pull snails off the glass yet awesome pics
the other day I was feeding a leather and a ricordia with reef chilli, which is a freeze dried mix of phyto and zooplankton. basiaclly about the consistency of salt. you mix it in a bottle with tank water and then just squirt it at corals.
I didnt think the elegance would be able to eat stuff so small, but my girlfriend said "why not try it" so I did, and certainly observed a feeding response from the elegance. maybe they are able to pull much smaller things from the water than I thought.
never seen mine pull snails off the glass yet
awesome pics
Freed
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Here are mine in my 20 gal QT tank. The one in the back(aussie) all shriveled up is one that came with parasitic crabs and just aboot died before I removed the crabs. That one is making a painstakingly slow recovery and is starting to open up again and starting to feed on mysis as well. The one in the front is an aussie I got locally when the other one started dying. That one opens up wickedly big and has amazing color patterns to it. It eats like this little piggy that had roast beef. I'll be puttting the one in front in my main display in the next week er so. That's what it's all aboot.
Aquarist007
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12461874#post12461874 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RyanBrucks
Ive found they just spit out some of the shrimp if you give a piece thats too big.
the other day I was feeding a leather and a ricordia with reef chilli, which is a freeze dried mix of phyto and zooplankton. basiaclly about the consistency of salt. you mix it in a bottle with tank water and then just squirt it at corals.
I didnt think the elegance would be able to eat stuff so small, but my girlfriend said "why not try it" so I did, and certainly observed a feeding response from the elegance. maybe they are able to pull much smaller things from the water than I thought.
never seen mine pull snails off the glass yet
I think you are right--mine is on the substrate of a 28 inch high tank--the halides max out at 18 inches and I only spot feed it once or twice a week---so it must be getting nutrients from the water as a result of my other coral feeding routine
(I feed all corals twice a week with a mixture of reef snow mysis and cyclopeeze)
I have a question. Ive had my elegance for over 6 months. Got it here in Philippines. The coral itself does expand, but not the tentacles, the tentacles doesnt extend like the ones i see here on the pics in this topic. I feed it shrimp a couple of times a week and it does eat it. It also ate my pistol shrimp when one of my other pistol shrimps snapped it in 2 pieces.
Is there something wrong if the sweeper tentacles doesnt extend?
Is there something wrong if the sweeper tentacles doesnt extend?
ReefEnabler
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how long has it been like that? how much are you feeding, and what size of shrimp? are you cutting it up? what lighting do you have it under?? could be alot of things including water parameters.
What fish is it housed with? I've had my elegance for about 7 months now also and its been through some ups and downs. Got really irritated and looked almost like you described when my clowns started hosting it, so I had to separate them
also had issues with light acclimation
Initially it was on the sandbed of my small temporary 20g tank but it started to both bleach and develop splotchy patches of brown on the underside of its polyp. this also caused the tentacles not to expand much. .
I used a lux meter and it was getting maybe 2500-3000 lux where it was at with 130w of PC lighting. was getting 250w MH at the LFS so no mystery there (wasnt intending to keep the elegance in this temporary tank this long lol). I know elegance dont like to be on rocks, so my solution was to build a 6x6x6" acrylic tank and fill it with sand to elevate the elegance closer to the light where PAR readings are more along the lines of 4000-6000. Ever since its started to regain uniform color but you can spot a hint of blotching in the underside of the feeding shot.
Here's a shot yesterday:
feeding time:
blotchyness on the underside used to be much worse before increasing the ligthing (raising it up
you should read this article on elegance corals by Eric Bornerman http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-01/eb/index.php
if your situation persists, you could be facing what Bornerman calls "elegance coral syndrome" or ECS. I've had mine look like that but never for more than a week at most and then it bounces back.
Good luck, and remember the more information you provide the better equipped people on this forum will be to help.
What fish is it housed with? I've had my elegance for about 7 months now also and its been through some ups and downs. Got really irritated and looked almost like you described when my clowns started hosting it, so I had to separate them
also had issues with light acclimation
Initially it was on the sandbed of my small temporary 20g tank but it started to both bleach and develop splotchy patches of brown on the underside of its polyp. this also caused the tentacles not to expand much. .
I used a lux meter and it was getting maybe 2500-3000 lux where it was at with 130w of PC lighting. was getting 250w MH at the LFS so no mystery there (wasnt intending to keep the elegance in this temporary tank this long lol). I know elegance dont like to be on rocks, so my solution was to build a 6x6x6" acrylic tank and fill it with sand to elevate the elegance closer to the light where PAR readings are more along the lines of 4000-6000. Ever since its started to regain uniform color but you can spot a hint of blotching in the underside of the feeding shot.
Here's a shot yesterday:
feeding time:
blotchyness on the underside used to be much worse before increasing the ligthing (raising it up
you should read this article on elegance corals by Eric Bornerman http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-01/eb/index.php
if your situation persists, you could be facing what Bornerman calls "elegance coral syndrome" or ECS. I've had mine look like that but never for more than a week at most and then it bounces back.
Good luck, and remember the more information you provide the better equipped people on this forum will be to help.
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ReefEnabler
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thats a picture of an elegance with ECS from the Bornerman article I linked above.
I've had mine go like that a few times but usually only a day or two. I know that alot of people repeat the idea that eleganc corals like 'dirty water' but I dont think that can equate to 'bad water parameters' in the aquarium sense. I usually notice visual improvement in my elegance a day or so after water changes.
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superedge88
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RyanBrucks, I notice exactly the same thing with my elegance corals, one of them is a bit more finnicky than the others, I know when I need to do a good water change when the one indonesian elegance starts "acting up" like you mentioned.
Are there any good places online to get an aussie elegance? I haven't seen one on Divers Den in a while and most that I did see had dark spots located within the green. I'm hoping to find one that has stripes like this one:
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11529564#post11529564 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sandeep
I absolutely love them. Here are a couple of mine.
This is a another shot of the above Elegance showing some of it's lovely structure.
Here is another one of my Elegance, this is a newly cut frag.
superedge88
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atlantis has aussie elegance corals.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12497112#post12497112 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RyanBrucks
how long has it been like that? how much are you feeding, and what size of shrimp? are you cutting it up? what lighting do you have it under?? could be alot of things including water parameters.
What fish is it housed with? I've had my elegance for about 7 months now also and its been through some ups and downs. Got really irritated and looked almost like you described when my clowns started hosting it, so I had to separate them
also had issues with light acclimation
Initially it was on the sandbed of my small temporary 20g tank but it started to both bleach and develop splotchy patches of brown on the underside of its polyp. this also caused the tentacles not to expand much. .
I used a lux meter and it was getting maybe 2500-3000 lux where it was at with 130w of PC lighting. was getting 250w MH at the LFS so no mystery there (wasnt intending to keep the elegance in this temporary tank this long lol). I know elegance dont like to be on rocks, so my solution was to build a 6x6x6" acrylic tank and fill it with sand to elevate the elegance closer to the light where PAR readings are more along the lines of 4000-6000. Ever since its started to regain uniform color but you can spot a hint of blotching in the underside of the feeding shot.
Here's a shot yesterday:
feeding time:
blotchyness on the underside used to be much worse before increasing the ligthing (raising it up
you should read this article on elegance corals by Eric Bornerman http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-01/eb/index.php
if your situation persists, you could be facing what Bornerman calls "elegance coral syndrome" or ECS. I've had mine look like that but never for more than a week at most and then it bounces back.
Good luck, and remember the more information you provide the better equipped people on this forum will be to help.
Its been like that since i got it last year. It doesnt bloat up or something like in the pic you posted. Only problem that i see is that the tentacles doesn get long. I do have some clowns though who likes the elegance a lot! The female only rubs in it when the lights are off, but her partner is constantly in it all day long. I feed it small pieces of shrimp that i got from the store. I chop it in small pieces. For lighting, i have a 150w MH with a 20k bulb. Ill try and post pics tomorrow so you can see how it is.
ReefEnabler
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Kamao,
I believe that at night time is when the elegance is harmed the most by the clowns. This could just be pure guessing, but I dont think I am the only one to reach this conclusion.
At day time the elegance is expanded full of water and it doesn't look as if the clowns irritate it much. but at night time the elegance is shrunken down close to its rough skeleton and I think the clowns will 'push it' up and down as if to say "wake up, blanket!!! im cold!!!"
I think this damages the skin of the coral over time since I obseved mine go downhill after about a week of that happening.
My solution was temporary and ugly.... two sheets of eggcrate right down the middle of the 20g tank Actually started as one sheet but the clowns could actually knock it down so two were needed.
for kicks heres a shot of my clowns hosting the elegance about a day after it started. at the time I thought it was so cool a few people warned me it wouldn't end well but I didn't believe them.... they were right.
1-30-08
I believe that at night time is when the elegance is harmed the most by the clowns. This could just be pure guessing, but I dont think I am the only one to reach this conclusion.
At day time the elegance is expanded full of water and it doesn't look as if the clowns irritate it much. but at night time the elegance is shrunken down close to its rough skeleton and I think the clowns will 'push it' up and down as if to say "wake up, blanket!!! im cold!!!"
I think this damages the skin of the coral over time since I obseved mine go downhill after about a week of that happening.
My solution was temporary and ugly.... two sheets of eggcrate right down the middle of the 20g tank
Actually started as one sheet but the clowns could actually knock it down so two were needed.for kicks heres a shot of my clowns hosting the elegance about a day after it started. at the time I thought it was so cool
a few people warned me it wouldn't end well but I didn't believe them.... they were right.
1-30-08
PoukieBear
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I'm sad to report that my bautiful Aussie didn't survive in my tank.
I tried everything I could think of, but it just kept melting and receding away.
When I pulled it out of the tank this weekend, I could hardly stand the smell. OMG, it was awful.
This is my very first loss, of ANYTHING in my tank, and it was the worst feeling ever.
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