Elegance coral

[JimW]

A lot of controversy over this in the past. Here is the link to his final article on the subject.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-01/eb/index.php

I found the last five paragraphs to be very interesting.

Some think that over collection of shallow water specimens has forced harvest from deeper waters where the elegance is acclimated to far less light. When exposed to higher lighting levels these corals expel zooanthellae, weakening them and exposing them to secondary infection. This seems much more plausible to me than some mystery infection or pathogen.

The Australian elegance is collected from shallow waters just like the Indo elegance used to be, and appears to be easy to keep, just as Indo variety was in days past.

The whole Elegance Coral Project, IMHO, was poorly handled.

Jim

 

[tangsrbest]

elegance was fairly hardy in my exper i would agree cont with disease in system and zoo loss every one needs quarantine coral as well as fish to prevent problems keep coral dip on hand it can make a great dif in a sick hard coral i have seen corals come in 1/4 flesh from skelton make come back in a week be an unreal dif in 24 hr

if a shop get from one wholesaler most wholesalers only have one sys for coral so if its from aus, fiji. bali it can still face the same disease problem and lay waste to youre intire sys