Feeding Elegance coral?

[karlyhui]

Hi

I brought a elegance coral for 3 weeks now is doing extremely well. Today was the first day I feed the elegance. There is around 8 mouths. Does each mouth need to be feed? I put a small piece of krill to each part but there is around 8 mouths and 3 parts. Would 3 piece be enough? since it has 3 parts.




thanks.

 

[Majikhammer]

Elegance corals are very slow eaters. They are also known to clean up snails very well:strange:. A Elegance coral is a "solid" "Walling" coral. It does not have "heads" like branching Euphyllias, or Zaos/palys. So if you feed one mouth, you technically feed the entire coral itself. I would change up where you feed it though(change to different mouths). If you have fish in the tank, they might try to steal the food from it. (If that happens)Its probably a good idea to feed a Elegance more often than other corals, Because of how slow it eats. Over all they are a beautiful coral! GoodLuck!!

-Adam

 

[jwoyshnar]

It's amazing what they do to snails.

 

[karlyhui]

Thank you, Mines must very hungry, as 3 different mouths ate around the same time.

Yes they are stunning beautiful too bad my clowns dont' host them.

Any meat food recomendation for them?

 

[Tankjunkie0481]

From what I have seen, you can feed anything meaty. Brine, Mysis, Raw shrimp, silversides, and of course your snails. Brine and Mysis are probably not the best choice since they are so easy for other fish to steal little bits instead of an entire chunk of meat.

 

[Majikhammer]

From what I have seen, you can feed anything meaty. Brine, Mysis, Raw shrimp, silversides, and of course your snails. Brine and Mysis are probably not the best choice since they are so easy for other fish to steal little bits instead of an entire chunk of meat.

I Second that.


But with the clowns. IMO, I think you should remove clowns if they host corals. They usually end up ****ing off the coral. So it slows down the growth, It does not extend anymore, it stays closed up. Or straight to where they just kill it. I had 8 clownfish and 2 hosted my duncan coral. 2 hosted my elegance, 2 hosted my brain coral, and 2 the anemone I have. The Duncan coral never came out as much as it use too. Clowns usually bite the tipps off of coral too. But all in all, after I removed all but my two black clowns. All those corals started coming fully back out, and growing more.

-Adam

 

[Cptn Spaulding]

+1 MajikHammer. However there are some corals that are okay for them to host, like toadstool leathers, and other (otherwise) indestructible corals. I had a pair of oscellaris host a Tyree toadstool, I think it actually grew faster when it was getting hosted.

 

[hey_frag]

I had a baby Clarkii host my large elegance, it got its fair share of food and wasn't harassed. When I took down the tank, I also found a good amount of snail shells around it.

 

[usmc121581]

I have a 8" elagance coral and moved it and noticed a large amount of snail shells, and figured it was a fish but now I think different.