elegance coral

[reefD]

just picked up a beautiful specimen at union. anybody have experience with this coral or have any info that i should know about them? looks just like an anemone but cant move!lol! thanks and ill post a picture asap.

 

[Dave ESPI]

The most sound advice I can give.........

Take it back.



* to the Ocean.

 

[Lakeside518]

I have also looked into getting one. Have read little to no success in other RC members keeping them. So i have steered clear. Gorgeous but I'll pass.

 

[michaelg]

they used to be very hardy corals, but in the past few years, they come in looking great the go to pot. Good luck with it.
I have a frag from an old one- very slow eaters.

 

[michaelg]

they used to be very hardy corals, but in the past few years, they come in looking great the go to pot. Good luck with it.
I have a frag from an old one- very slow eaters.

 

[jefathome]

I was talking to teh LFS guy and he thinks that they have colleceted most of the shallower water specimines, and now have to go to deep water to collect... and this is why they are not surviving any more. Take that for what it's worth...

 

[reefD]

yeah i did read about this. some site said that recently the survival rate has dropped extreamly. i really do focus on depth collection as a cause but also am intrigued!
ok im gonna keep em at the bottom shaded. he opened well today under these conditions. also i need to keep flow low and am hoping that this is the trick. i have read that what ussually sends them headed to demise is tissue seperating from skeloton. seems fine but once they pop away the just arent happy at all. this is all what i read today when researching. ill keep you all updated on its health. still very very pretty coral that seriously resembles an anemone.

 

[gary greguire]

I have heard some rescent success using DT's oister eggs & cyclopeze

 

[reefD]

thanks gary ill try that!

 

[monti-mike]

yea feed it a bunch thats always a good thing but dont polute the tank, and I actually read in the Julian Sprung books that the elegance coral is one of the most potent stingers and will even kill aptasia, he said to use it like a brush, and move it againt the aptasia, and kills it by stinging............

my best advice is to chck on the internet of the type and see, what it needs, thats the best u really can doo, just keep a look for the tissue pulling back, thats when u will be in trouble..
peace


mike

 

[reefD]

yeah i read about the tissue thing and that worries me

 

[Dave ESPI]

they bleach out first.

 

[xian]

On this topic: Did anyone ever contribute to Eric Borneman's Elegance Project or hear of the results? He was asking for donations to investigate their poor performance in aquaria.

 

[michaelg]

I helped him get a frag of a healthy couple from DC There should be a summary out there somewhere. Personally from my observations, the oyester eggs and cyclopeeze are probably too small for them. Mine will devour big chuncks of food, but like I said, it is a slow eater. The gonipora I have are another story. from what I read on gut contents, I've really bumped up the small food for them including phytoplankton (which it seems they are one of the few stonies that eat a lot of it).