Let's play "What nuked that coral?"

[voidg]

For sure last night and probably this morning my new (1 week) elegance coral frag was doing great. Open, looked good, etc. Today I come home from work and it is a pile of goo!

Suspects:

1) 4-5" away I have what could either be trumpet or candy cane coral (both have short sweepers I thought)

2) 10-12" away I have a two headed hammer frag

3) I have a nem that is on the mend after being torn up by a filter, though he is on the other side of the tank and the rest of my corals are ok

4) Someone slimed up, as the elegance is "down stream" in the flow maybe he got hit with it

5) Ideas?

Other corals in the tank not close the elegance: Wellso, Trachyx2, lots of Zoas, Shrooms, Ricordea, Favia, Colt, Sinularia, Xenia

Fish: Solon Fairy Wrasse, Midas Blenny, Purple Firefish, Long Nose Hawk

Inverts: Skunk Cleaner Shrimp (at least double the size of the hawk so he wont eat it), two feather dusters, handful of store bought snails, army of stomatella, lots of macro brittle starfish as LR hikers

 

[briankmarsh1980]

My guess is the nem has messed up your water.

 

[Cubeman]

None of the above. Google Elegance Coral Syndrome and don't bother buying another one.

 

[reefshadow]

None of the above. Google Elegance Coral Syndrome and don't bother buying another one.

Sad to say they are extremely difficult corals.

 

[Anemone]

Sad to say they are extremely difficult corals.

Yep. They are known to crash in short order; sometimes after a relatively short period of time in a tank, and sometimes after many months. Don't buy them.

Kevin

 

[dthorn]

I would have thought something with the nem but I guess that shows the extent of my knowledge about elegance corals. Amazing in this hobby how something as popular as elegance coral could have a syndrome that I've never read about. Everyone is so focused on their aggression that they don't bother mentioning important details like this. Guess it's good that they are trouble in the first place or I may have had to learn the hard way too. Sorry for the loss, and good luck with everything else.

 

[Anemone]

Amazing in this hobby how something as popular as elegance coral could have a syndrome that I've never read about.

Elegance corals were A LOT more popular in the hobby about 10 years ago. Now you you don't see them nearly as much - and they're survivability issues are the primary cause. Their loss in popularity is also why you probably haven't read much about it lately - there simply aren't that many people keeping them anymore.

Kevin