how to care for bleached elegance?

[HammerLover]

So my newly bought elegance is kinda pale. Right now its browning up a bit but its still pretty pale as a whole coral. Its been with me since Friday and it has eaten twice. A small shrimp that I fed and a dead firefish that got bullied by a clown (ate half of the fish only).

The coral swelled up within a period of 30 seconds after feeding the shrimp and after 2 mins it started to come back to itself.

I'm really scared since Elegance are some of the most temperamental corals and can die immediately with a small tiny mistake :hmm3:

Now its on the sand bed with medium laminar flow but I'm planning on moving it up on the rocks once its acclimated to the tank.

The coral is collected in our local shores so I'm not sure if its the same as indo ones. The base is trapezoid in shape, like a cone that's cut at the bottom. The base is covered with lots of bright red and purple coralline so I'm hinting its collected in shallower areas? I really need EC now, I wonder where he is. Im just getting paranoid all over about it since its just a very pretty coral to waste away (and pretty pricey too)

So all who had experience for elegance corals especially bleached ones I'll be really grateful to accept advices

Thanks!
P.S I posted this already but I'm still not satisfied with the tips (no offense guys). I'm just really paranoid on it and I'm sorry if I am. I really need more advices so I can feel much comfortable

Pics of coral
After adding to the tank:

Here it is after eating and its latest shot

Thanks once again and sorry if I keep on asking :headwally::hmm4:

 

[cloak]

Aside from the color, the coral looks good to me. Assuming your parameters are within reason and the lighting is sufficient you might want to just leave it alone for the time being. It obviously likes where it's at now IMO. Keep feeding it small pieces of shrimp or scallop every 3 or 4 days or so and just be patient. Sometimes the best thing to do is nothing at all. GL.

 

[HammerLover]

Thank you!

So feed 3-4x a week till it colors up then I'll slowly move it up on the rock work

Also, it seems sticky so I'll take that as a good sign?

 

[Meshmez]

I had an elegance that was very bleached. I put it in a very shaded spot and fed it small food. It colored up nicely and started to grow, but it took months.

then my tank crashed...:sad2:

I would say keep it low and don't over feed it. Half a fish seems like a lot to me! It's not an anemone.

and yes, sticky is a good sign

 

[jmm]

I put a baseball-sized piece on the sand under some older styled LED lights. It grew to softball-size in just a couple of months with new shell (the hard skeleton part) growth of about 1/4 inch. Then the lights failed and I bought radions. I guess they were too bright and the coral bleached. It still seemed healthy, though, so I reduced the intensity of the light. Within a few weeks, the color came back.

I don't feed it, but it probably catches a few brine shrimp and mysis when I feed the fish (or maybe not). After three years, it is basketball size and very colorful. The skeleton is probably double the size it started out. It's in full light but at the sand level of a 27 inch deep tank, a little off center from the radion.

 

[Bent]

I'd say treat it the same as a bleached nem. Just keep feeding it.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I already gave you the suggestions of what to do on your other thread.

I said the same thing that Cloak did feed it every 2-3 days, not 3-4x a week.

 

[Rallos]

What shores are those that you collected it from? Just curious as to origin.

 

[HammerLover]

What shores are those that you collected it from? Just curious as to origin.

Well it's collected in the shores of our country. I forgot the name of the reefs where my country gets most of its corals though sorry...

Most of our Marine LS are just local stock and we are also selling and importing lots of corals and fish like Indonesia.

 

[HammerLover]

I already gave you the suggestions of what to do on your other thread.

I said the same thing that Cloak did feed it every 2-3 days, not 3-4x a week.

Well I'm still confuse on the swelling of the coral. Is it really normal to expand like its one ginat puffy flesh and suddenly went back normally.

And what food does it really like? Meaty? Brine shrimp/small powdery foods?

And it ate half of my firefish plus a pencil eraser sized shrimp. Is it too much feeding for a week? The firefishes half was dried though when the coral spitted it out.

And is nitrates fine with it? I now have much lower nitrates than before but there is still some. Since its an LPS, it will be fine right?

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I thought I said to feed it a few Mysis but don't remember, but that's what I feed mine. You have been at this long enough to know what good water parameters are, you need to also keep them stable. Nitrates should be less than 10

 

[HammerLover]

The polyps are somehow shrunk a bit brcause my evil clown hosted it for awhile. Now its back to hosting my torch and my powerhead. I fed it yesterdy with a small chunk of fish meat and it somehow look much better but still not fully open though

 

[HammerLover]

 

[HammerLover]

The third pic is the latest pic of the elegance coral
I assume it looks better now?