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ReefDoctorMicromussas
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Primo Tank friend Just wow I love the Elegance 
Very nice elegance corals. I too got a few elegance corals in my tank, but they all from the same mother colony.
May I ask what type of lighting do you have over the elegance? The puffiness and short tentacles seen on one of your picutres, is it common to new elegance coral you get? Did any of the healthy elegance coral you have ever shown signs and symptoms of puffiness and short entacles?
I would like to know if the newimported elegance are in fact from much deeper water and that may be one of the reasons that most recent imports would not survived? Decompression sickness???
May I ask what type of lighting do you have over the elegance? The puffiness and short tentacles seen on one of your picutres, is it common to new elegance coral you get? Did any of the healthy elegance coral you have ever shown signs and symptoms of puffiness and short entacles?
I would like to know if the newimported elegance are in fact from much deeper water and that may be one of the reasons that most recent imports would not survived? Decompression sickness???
someguynamedG
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do you have any fighting bewteen elegance? I would'nt think it to be a problem just wondering.
Jeremy Blaze
Former Reef Addict
Eric Bornemans Elegance study discovered that many of the corals were picking up a bactirea at somepoint in the hanlding process, and that is what is killing them.
Shutiny,
I have HQI 14K halides over the tanks. The corals that are in quarantine have opened in the same manner since I purchased them. I don't believe the large one is opening in the same manner as the diseased animals. It keeps normal tentacle length and opens very wide, not as much like a balloon as diseased animals, it also doesn't shed mucus. I have not had one of the diseased animals that open in that manner. I do not believe there is much of a link btw care issues and natural environment, I believe there is a pathogen as Jeremy Blaze pointed out above.
SomeguynamedG,
I have not seen any aggressive behavior btw the elegances'. I do have a couple that come within contact of one another but don't show aggressive tendencies.
Thanks,
Mark
I have HQI 14K halides over the tanks. The corals that are in quarantine have opened in the same manner since I purchased them. I don't believe the large one is opening in the same manner as the diseased animals. It keeps normal tentacle length and opens very wide, not as much like a balloon as diseased animals, it also doesn't shed mucus. I have not had one of the diseased animals that open in that manner. I do not believe there is much of a link btw care issues and natural environment, I believe there is a pathogen as Jeremy Blaze pointed out above.
SomeguynamedG,
I have not seen any aggressive behavior btw the elegances'. I do have a couple that come within contact of one another but don't show aggressive tendencies.
Thanks,
Mark
Mark, I am impressed with your skills in keeping these elegance alive. Kudos to you
I got a few e-mails and pm about my elegance cooral and I am happy to share what I know/have about this beautiful animal.
First, my elegance coral is over 15 year old, but the credit of keep it alive for so long goes to my friend Linda, not me.
You could see some picture on page two and three(I believe) at this site:
http://s142.photobucket.com/albums/r111/shutiny/?start=40
These are the 3rd and 4th generation and they are matured, got mouth and eating like littel pigs.
It is a very productive coral like the Euphyllias and the physogyra sp., They are easy to frag ( I sue my rose sheer, but Dremal may be a better tool)and easy to grow in most lighting condition. I'll try to get more pictures for the new babies (4th genration)that I made from a week ago.
About the disease of wild elegance.
When my Husband and I visited Pacific Islands and have seen the elegance corals displayed the puffieness right when they were placed in the holding tanks; right after they were collected from the ocean. I am not sure what is the incubatio/prothromal time for infection to occur in marine animals? But I am wondering is the infection a secondary reaction resuted from some types of injury or is it the organic issue here? Can symptoms of infection on set with in hours of being collected? Thes elegance are now being collected from deeper water and do marine animals with soft tissue/expanssion can get decompression sickness?
I alos have seen the mucus /melting of tentacles in newly impoted Euphyllia sp., and large sea anemone at times.
Any one knows what caused that?
Where can we find Dr. Eric?
TIA for info or answers
Shu Tin
I got a few e-mails and pm about my elegance cooral and I am happy to share what I know/have about this beautiful animal.
First, my elegance coral is over 15 year old, but the credit of keep it alive for so long goes to my friend Linda, not me.
You could see some picture on page two and three(I believe) at this site:
http://s142.photobucket.com/albums/r111/shutiny/?start=40
These are the 3rd and 4th generation and they are matured, got mouth and eating like littel pigs.
It is a very productive coral like the Euphyllias and the physogyra sp., They are easy to frag ( I sue my rose sheer, but Dremal may be a better tool)and easy to grow in most lighting condition. I'll try to get more pictures for the new babies (4th genration)that I made from a week ago.
About the disease of wild elegance.
When my Husband and I visited Pacific Islands and have seen the elegance corals displayed the puffieness right when they were placed in the holding tanks; right after they were collected from the ocean. I am not sure what is the incubatio/prothromal time for infection to occur in marine animals? But I am wondering is the infection a secondary reaction resuted from some types of injury or is it the organic issue here? Can symptoms of infection on set with in hours of being collected? Thes elegance are now being collected from deeper water and do marine animals with soft tissue/expanssion can get decompression sickness?
I alos have seen the mucus /melting of tentacles in newly impoted Euphyllia sp., and large sea anemone at times.
Any one knows what caused that?
Where can we find Dr. Eric?
TIA for info or answers
Shu Tin
