Elegance coral show off thread

[PoukieBear]

It could be that the pics are a little washed out. I'm not the best photographer. It actually does look a little greener in person.

How many watts of T5's are you running? I have a feeling I'll need to buy some more live rock to create a shelter for it.

 

[stunreefer]

Poukie , you can always add a screen top-section between the light and top of tank located over the elegance. I've done this before, actually for my elegance. Just take some eggcrate, and wrap some window screen around it, placing it above the elegance (so you dont shade your whole tank). You can start with a few layers of screen, then remove them one by one (week by week), until your just eggcrate, then remove it all. This will slowly bring the elegance up to the brighter light. My tank is only 18" deep, with a 250 HQI 14K over top, and my elegance was P I S S E D off when I first brought him home, but now since he slowly acllimated to it, hes loving it!!!

IMO, I dont think your elegance is bleached out. It could be (bleached), it could be the pic, or most elegance tend to have a more pastel base to them anyway. I LOVE the super bright purple-blue tips too - too cool!

superedge88 - wicked man!!! What kind of lighting was that pic taken under? #1, thats an awesome pic, but more importantly #2, what an awesome elegance! Congrats on a great score!!!

 

[superedge88]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12379437#post12379437 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by stunreefer
Poukie , you can always add a screen top-section between the light and top of tank located over the elegance. I've done this before, actually for my elegance. Just take some eggcrate, and wrap some window screen around it, placing it above the elegance (so you dont shade your whole tank). You can start with a few layers of screen, then remove them one by one (week by week), until your just eggcrate, then remove it all. This will slowly bring the elegance up to the brighter light. My tank is only 18" deep, with a 250 HQI 14K over top, and my elegance was P I S S E D off when I first brought him home, but now since he slowly acllimated to it, hes loving it!!!

IMO, I dont think your elegance is bleached out. It could be (bleached), it could be the pic, or most elegance tend to have a more pastel base to them anyway. I LOVE the super bright purple-blue tips too - too cool! Can you believe I took that pic with my crappy camera phone?!!

superedge88 - wicked man!!! What kind of lighting was that pic taken under? #1, thats an awesome pic, but more importantly #2, what an awesome elegance! Congrats on a great score!!!

The pic was taken under my T5 evening bulbs ( 4 blue plus) I run 8 overdriven T5HO bulbs total on my aquarium. The elegance was quite a score, I hadn't seen one before with white tips or with such a green body.

 

[PoukieBear]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12379437#post12379437 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by stunreefer
Poukie , you can always add a screen top-section between the light and top of tank located over the elegance. I've done this before, actually for my elegance. Just take some eggcrate, and wrap some window screen around it, placing it above the elegance (so you dont shade your whole tank). You can start with a few layers of screen, then remove them one by one (week by week), until your just eggcrate, then remove it all. This will slowly bring the elegance up to the brighter light. My tank is only 18" deep, with a 250 HQI 14K over top, and my elegance was P I S S E D off when I first brought him home, but now since he slowly acllimated to it, hes loving it!!!

I had to do this last night.... When i got home the coral wasn't so happy. I turned out the day lights, and just left the actinics on and it came out then.

I had to improvise with a few materials that I had around the house. Hopefully this weekend i'll get some proper stuff.

But.....It seems to me that just blocking the light directly above the coral isn't accomplishing much. Maybe it's because the tank is so tall.... when I turned on the lights this morning it didn't seem like the coral was shaded at all.

 

[stunreefer]

Yeah I could see that, you might be getting most of the light via reflection off of the glass and the sand/rocks. Keep in mind that relected light like that is visible to us, but doesn't provide the intensity that direct light would, which would make the coral mad (if its more of a low-light coral).

Something easy and cheap to do in this case (if its getting too much reflected light/top shading isn't helping), you can build a little stand (like a frag rack) out of eggcrate around the elegance. Almost like a little cage. The holes in the eggcrate will allow proper flow, and it will help diffuse the light. If necessary, you can attach screen to the top of the eggcrate cage to shade the coral even more (even the sides, but this will block some flow). I have built these stands and just put frag disks in the top to help block light....then you can put frags on there too!

How deep is your tank?

In all honesty, aussies can generally handle more light than their Indonesian cousins, so I wouldn't get too worries about it unless you notice major bleaching of color or constantly retracted tentacles. It would be somewhat normal if the coral was previously kept under real low light, and when moved into your tank lost a little base color - It will come back. My elegance is in a 50 breeder, 18" high, and there is a 250 DE MH 14K light over top. There is overall "high" lighting in this tank. Granted he's in the far corner, but that is still going to replicate a "med.-high" intensity. HTH and GL!

 

[Mental1]

IMVHO, unless the coral is swollen and the polyps are short you are fine. It looks just fine in the pictures

 

[PoukieBear]

stunreefer, Thanks for even more tips. I've moved the coral under an overhang, where it's still getting light, but not as intence. I'll see how it likes it there, and slowly move it out as needed to aclimate it.

The tank that it was in at the store didn't have intense lighting.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12392370#post12392370 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Mental1
IMVHO, unless the coral is swollen and the polyps are short you are fine. It looks just fine in the pictures

I agree, it looks great in my pics. But shortly after those pics were taken, it's oral disks swelled up and it released a lot of algea. Not a good sign.

After a lot of reading from Elegance Coral's study, this is caused by too much light.

I think I got off lucky though, the tenticles are still extended, but the oral disks aren't as inflated as when I first brought it home. I'll take some pictures tonight to show you what I mean.

 

[Aust95]

I've had this elegance for 6 weeks. It gets larger each week.

 

[Aust95]

 

[N-A-S-O]

 

[N-A-S-O]

there you go

 

[Mental1]

Michelle -- how is it doing since you moved it?

 

[PoukieBear]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12399957#post12399957 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Mental1
Michelle -- how is it doing since you moved it?

I think it's doing OK. When I moved it, it was still expanded, but to me, the oral disks aren't quite as inflated as they should be. The tenticles are still expanded all the way, which I take as a good sign.

I didn't go home last night, so I don't know how it liked it's first full day of being shaded.

I had someone check the tank, and they said that "everything looked OK". I'll know for sure tonight. I'll take pictures too.

 

[GSMguy]

Poukie WHO LET YOU OUT????


that elegance of yours is sweet i love those blue tips.

 

[PoukieBear]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12400415#post12400415 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GSMguy
Poukie WHO LET YOU OUT????


that elegance of yours is sweet i love those blue tips.

Poukie? Who's Poukie? There's no Poukie here, it's all just a figment of your imagination, now go back to the padded room, also known as the lounge, and play with the finger paints, but try not to eat them this time.


Thanks GSM, hopefully it'll stay healthy in my tank.

 

[Mental1]

Aust95 -- your coral looks great -- neighbor!

 

[superedge88]

Just to keep this thread going...

From left to right
Australian elegance
Indonesian elegance
Indonesian elegance (WAY off to the right)

The fish in the picture are
strawberry pseudochromis (back in the shadows
Scribbled Rabbitfish siganus doliatus
Yellow Coris Wrasse
Midas Blenny

 

[stunreefer]

Just out of curiosity, how often do you guys feed your elegance?

I vary my feeings from every-other day, to every four days or so.

 

[Aust95]

Thanks N-A-S-O, I don't know how to post pictures yet. Thanks for posting my picture. My elegance is increasing in size every week.

 

[stunreefer]

You guys wanna see something CRAZY???!!!



I witnessed this last night and was able to snap a couple pics. Check this out:

Yeah. That thing is eating Stomatella snails off of the glass!!!

I couldn't believe it. In this pic you can see the one hes holding on to towards the top left, and if you look towards the bottom left, you'll notice hes got another one. He ended up ripping these two poor souls off of the glass and eating them.