elegance experts

[telamont]

i have a healthy elegance for about a year now. im worried ive just gotten two new ones and i dont want to hurt my original.

anyone had experience adding new elegance corals to a system with an already healthy elegance, that then led to the death of the healthy one after the adding the new ones?

ive heard elegance corals are tough to keep alive after so long and im wondering if it is some kind of parasite like ive read some people thinking it is here and there.

anyones thoughts would be cool or professional experience thanks.

 

[kramgnik]

There are documented cases of the disease spreading from new sypmtomatic specimens to established ones. Always best to quarantine. I would for as long as 6 months as they usually dont start to show symptoms for a month or greater.

 

[Chinch Bug]

I had a very healthy 7 inch aussie for over a year. I won a baby/frag elegance at a frag swap and within four months both were dead but everything else in my tank was thriving. I believe my healthy specimen caught something from the frag.

 

[elegance coral]

I agree with the others. Quarantine!!!!
Any time you add a new individual of a species you already own, or a related species, you run the risk of introducing parasites or infectious microbes that may affect the resident pet. This is VERY common in anemones, corals of many kinds, and even fish. When we're dealing with a species that's known to come in ill, like elegance corals, the odds of transferring sickness only goes up.