Patrick Cox
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Here is a picture of my healthy Elegance Coral. I have had it for about a year and it seems to be thriving. It is bigger than my hand with fully extended fingers! Thanks for looking!
Healthy Elegance Coral
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Biocubehqi
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I've really wanted one of those, but my tank into small....
elegance coral
They call me EC
BEAUTIFUL:thumbsup:
Paris_Wiley
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Yes, that really looks awesome. Also my favorite LPS coral. Any tips on how you keep it (such as feeding and lighting) would be appreciated.
elegantcoral333
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Awesome Elegant!
Awesome Elegant!
Just purchased an elegance, what are your tips on keeping it looking so healthy for so long? Thanks!
Awesome Elegant!
Just purchased an elegance, what are your tips on keeping it looking so healthy for so long? Thanks!
Patrick Cox
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Hi, to be honest, I don't feel like I have done that much. I think one key is getting a the right variety for home aquariums. I have read that Aussies are more conducive to that but not sure if that is true or not. Then I simply do regular water changes and try to keep parameters consistent. I've got average light and average flow. Although I am moving to a larger tank with stronger light so we will see how that goes.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Looks good, looks just like mine. I keep mine under 3-250w MH and an 2200 gal/ he pump. You will be fine with stronger light. I have kept mine for 6 years like this. So you should be good. Good luck.
Patrick Cox
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Well, I have run into a bit of an issue with my elegance coral. I am cycling my new tank and in the process I removed all of the live rock from my old tank because it was covered with pests. Before I removed the rock I seeded some bio balls in my sump to handle the biological filtration. Well, during this time I let my alkalinity drop to the 4-5 range and all of my corals looked terrible. I lost two SPS corals and I thought I might lose my elegance and frogspawn but they seem to be hanging on. Now the elegance does seem to be opening up more but for some reason, the "fingers" are not extending like they used to.
Any thoughts on what might cause this and how to improve? I do have my alk back in line and have been monitoring. All other parameters are OK.
Here is a picture. Thanks!
Any thoughts on what might cause this and how to improve? I do have my alk back in line and have been monitoring. All other parameters are OK.
Here is a picture. Thanks!
Not to worry you, but from my experience with them and people I know they lost there elagance coral when it did that. Not saying you would. Maybe someone else who had different results then I have in the past will chime in.
TucanSam007
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B-E-A-utiful!
Bolivian Ram
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I have the same Elegance coral as you do with the pink, blue colours and long tentacles. I have observed this behavior with my elegance on occasion, when there is a sudden change in lightening. Like when the lights first come on it bloats up and the tentacles retract. Doesn't do this all the time when the lights come on or turn off. After a few minutes it turns back to normal though.
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Patrick Cox
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Thanks. When I first encountered the Alk problem, the elegance was pulled way back into the skeleton. And it stayed like this for some time (maybe a week or so.) I thought it was going to die for sure. Then the polyp started extending more out of the skeleton and this is the picture that posted above. However in this whole time, the fingers have never extended like the first picture in this thread. So all I can do is try my best to keep the water stable and then once my new tank is ready in another week or so, move it over and then hope for the best there as well. This will be a new environment so I am sure the elegance will be somewhat unhappy with this change as well.
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
Good luck, the one thing I would try to hold off on doing is moving it. If you are able to, if it is stressed now it will become more stressed out from the move. If not I hope you can get it to recover and start to fully extend its tenticles again. These corals are my favorite.
MikeYQM
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I've had a healthy specimen going in 2 years. Despite 2 clowns hosting it, it's thriving. I have it in the sand under Radion LED so I'd say moderate light. I've target fed periodically and noticed no real benefit. Sand and flow seem to be the biggest parameters to keep it happy. If 90% of the skeleton is in the sand and flow is light-moderate it opens larger. Too much flow & it closes up like yours did but always opens back up. My water parameters are close to ULNS and very stable.
I was wondering if I was the only one that didnt noticing any difference in feeding. I have never target feed mine until the last 2 weeks. But didnt change anything.
Do you still have the Elegance and is it thriving?
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