fierceseaman
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I would really like to find someone that has successfully fragged elegance coral. I don't want to buy one that has been harvested because I'm very worried about ECD. Anybody doing this with success?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Fragged Elegance
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elegance coral
They call me EC
What do you base this info on? How many Indonesian Elegance corals have you had in the past 5 years or so? Do you have any pics that show these healthy Indonesian Elegance corals?
Fierceseaman
I believe you are right to be concerned about wild caught Elegance corals from Indonesia. Very, very, very, very few will make it through acclimation. I'm not forming my opinion based on what is said on the net. In about a 2 year time frame I purchased around 50 Elegance corals. ALL of them were ill. After alot of experimentation and dead Elegance corals, I learned how to greatly increase my odds of keeping them alive. Unfortunately getting them healthy is a much larger problem. I have 9 sickly Elegance corals left over from those experiments. They are recovering, but it is a very slow process that will probably take several years to complete.
If you want a healthy Elegance, you can buy one from Australia. They have a MUCH better track record. I only know of one case where an Australian Elegance showed the symptoms of the Indonesians, and I'm sure there was a mix up or something in that case.
fierceseaman
New member
Yeah, I just kind of like the idea of a propagated coral because of the environmental issues with these coral. After reading several articles it seems that they are starting to become very scarce in some parts. I want to make sure I get a healthy specimen as well and I think a fragged coral gives me the best chance for that.
mborn
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http://www.edensgatecorals.com/index1.htm
You could try here. I've never bought anything from them personally, but it's the only place I can think of that has elegance frags.
You could try here. I've never bought anything from them personally, but it's the only place I can think of that has elegance frags.
fierceseaman
New member
nice find, you know where they are located off hand?
stunreefer
Reef Hugger
Tyree has Elegance frags in their AE section:
http://www.reeffarmers.com/
He got his seed frag from Shu Tin, who has a 3,600 gal reef. You can see her tank and more info on her elegance(s) here: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1038647&perpage=25&pagenumber=1
http://www.reeffarmers.com/
He got his seed frag from Shu Tin, who has a 3,600 gal reef. You can see her tank and more info on her elegance(s) here: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1038647&perpage=25&pagenumber=1
>What do you base this info on? How many Indonesian Elegance corals have you had in the past 5 years or so?<
All i base this on is my personal observations, just like everybody else here. In fact, i have 2, one of which is a frag from a large fast growing specimen arriving 2 years ago (thinking about selling it, beacuse it is quickly becoming too large for the tank). The first one 1 got is now 1.5 years in the tank. It arrived bleached but is now 100% OK. The frag got bleached badly about a month ago because of the heat wave + chiler faluer combo. Interestingly, the previously bleached and recovered specimen did not bleach in this eccident. The frag is recovering nicely and is now about 2/3 on its way to normal. I know 5 othere people with indo elegance doing OK for ower a year. So i just dont believe the commonly tolled storry. These things do need low light at first and plenty of food (i and everybody else i know 2 be succesful feed 3 times a week), but not much else.
Pictures? sorry, but RS is impossible (at least 4 me) to figure out how to post pics on, wich BTW, is a pity, as i'd gladly show some pics. Not to proove anything but 4 the fun of it. But, if u want pictures of my elegance (or other stuff in the tank), U can PM yuor email address to me and i will gladly post some so that u can put them here.
All i base this on is my personal observations, just like everybody else here. In fact, i have 2, one of which is a frag from a large fast growing specimen arriving 2 years ago (thinking about selling it, beacuse it is quickly becoming too large for the tank). The first one 1 got is now 1.5 years in the tank. It arrived bleached but is now 100% OK. The frag got bleached badly about a month ago because of the heat wave + chiler faluer combo. Interestingly, the previously bleached and recovered specimen did not bleach in this eccident. The frag is recovering nicely and is now about 2/3 on its way to normal. I know 5 othere people with indo elegance doing OK for ower a year. So i just dont believe the commonly tolled storry. These things do need low light at first and plenty of food (i and everybody else i know 2 be succesful feed 3 times a week), but not much else.
Pictures? sorry, but RS is impossible (at least 4 me) to figure out how to post pics on, wich BTW, is a pity, as i'd gladly show some pics. Not to proove anything but 4 the fun of it. But, if u want pictures of my elegance (or other stuff in the tank), U can PM yuor email address to me and i will gladly post some so that u can put them here.
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elegance coral
They call me EC
I will send you a PM with my e-mail address. I never get tired of seeing Elegance pics.
This is the thread where I documented much of the research I did on these corals.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1109727&highlight=elegance+coral+theory
One of the problems I ran into was their inability to cope with elevated temps. Another problem was bleaching. Both are discussed in the thread above. I now believe they bleach for two different reasons. One is the normal bleaching that occurs with exposure to intense lighting. The other is caused by opportunistic parasites that feed on/kill zooxanthellae.
I'm looking foward to seeing your pics, and I will post them here for you.
This is the thread where I documented much of the research I did on these corals.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1109727&highlight=elegance+coral+theory
One of the problems I ran into was their inability to cope with elevated temps. Another problem was bleaching. Both are discussed in the thread above. I now believe they bleach for two different reasons. One is the normal bleaching that occurs with exposure to intense lighting. The other is caused by opportunistic parasites that feed on/kill zooxanthellae.
I'm looking foward to seeing your pics, and I will post them here for you.
I saw it and found it wery helpful at the time, when trying to get the first specimen to recover. Shading new specimens (almost to the point of too dark to make sence) and feeding properly does help (in this respect geting rid of the pesky longnose butterfly was the best change in this tank ever, but current tiny citron goby is almost as much of a pest with the eleganse). That first one is still in a shaded position (where i wont dare to put any other photosinthetic coral) and didnt bleach in this last heat stoke. The frag that did bleach white is in a well lit position. When it began to recover, the shaded bits on its sides were the first to recover, and the top center is yet to do so. Both are on rocks, btw. At some much earlyer point that frag was injured due to the rock slide, it took only 3 days for the cut tissue to regenerate.
