schabiazabi
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The elegance coral is beautiful. I wanted to have it, so I bought my first one. It opened very nice on the first day, but it was downward from day 2. It would open up less and less. Now and then it would discharge white mocus. Finally it changed color and died very fast.
It was strange to me, but since everything else is doing perfect in my tank I assumed the problem was an exception and the second elegance coral will be fine.
So I bought my second Aussie Elegance Coral from a different location than the first one, and it seems it is going to die just like the first one. On day 2 it sort of deflated and it is not open. I see white mocus and my cleaner shrimp is already eating it.
After a quick research I realized it is a common problem. Lesson learned, I need to research what I buy in advance. For now I will not buy any elegance corals.
What caught my attention in all this, is the fact how quick the coral dies on me. This elegance was bought from LiveAquaria Divers Den. Everything else is perfect from them. My elegance looked great and healthy on their pictures. It came healthy. It opened up for one day, but the next day it started falling apart.
Strange. It seems as the reason for this is something super trivial. Something that we in the hobby are not aware of. My tank conditions are perfect. Nitrate is at 0. Phosphate is at 0. The coral was under LEDs (AI Sol). RODI water. The only think I'm running is carbon. I have many other LPS/SPS corals without a single problem, and too be honest my corals open up 100% more than the place I buy them from.
The fact that I'm killing it so fast tells me something in my tank is killing it and the coral itself is fine. When I get more time I will do a test where I setup a brand new tank, with no other creatures/corals/etc in it and see what happens. This test tank will have no carbon, no nothing. I would love to get to the bottom of this as the quick death of this type of coral is hurting me.
It was strange to me, but since everything else is doing perfect in my tank I assumed the problem was an exception and the second elegance coral will be fine.
So I bought my second Aussie Elegance Coral from a different location than the first one, and it seems it is going to die just like the first one. On day 2 it sort of deflated and it is not open. I see white mocus and my cleaner shrimp is already eating it.
After a quick research I realized it is a common problem. Lesson learned, I need to research what I buy in advance. For now I will not buy any elegance corals.
What caught my attention in all this, is the fact how quick the coral dies on me. This elegance was bought from LiveAquaria Divers Den. Everything else is perfect from them. My elegance looked great and healthy on their pictures. It came healthy. It opened up for one day, but the next day it started falling apart.
Strange. It seems as the reason for this is something super trivial. Something that we in the hobby are not aware of. My tank conditions are perfect. Nitrate is at 0. Phosphate is at 0. The coral was under LEDs (AI Sol). RODI water. The only think I'm running is carbon. I have many other LPS/SPS corals without a single problem, and too be honest my corals open up 100% more than the place I buy them from.
The fact that I'm killing it so fast tells me something in my tank is killing it and the coral itself is fine. When I get more time I will do a test where I setup a brand new tank, with no other creatures/corals/etc in it and see what happens. This test tank will have no carbon, no nothing. I would love to get to the bottom of this as the quick death of this type of coral is hurting me.
