melted elegance

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saknick16

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my elegance did great for about 1 week and decided to close up and die on me. I guess it is not completely dead but it has lost most of its polyps. I noticed my sailfin tang, which is only about 1 inch, poking around at it. Does anyone have any ideas as to what happened or if i can still save it
 
Sad but true this is the story of how a lot of these guys go! Imo this is one of the corals as responsible aquarist we should boycott because for some reason they dont do as well as they used to in our systems?I see them on our wholesale sheets from time to time but i ignore that they are there just like moorish idols,50% or more of the butterfly fish, and so on and on. If all of the retailers did this then there would be no need to bring these fish and inverts in that are 90% of the time doomed from the beggining?Just my opinion and im not trying to point a finger at you at all it seems you along with tons of other people buy these animals from retailers they think they can trust and are not getting the full story on these animals and how dismal the sucess rate with them is? Saddly if your coral has lost or is loosing all of it's polyps/tissue it is probably past the point of it surviving/saving but i have little to no true as in hands on advice maybe someone else on here has some suggestions. Good luck and sorry to hear of you loosing one of these corals cause they are one of the prettiest of corals when thery are doing well!
 
Are the Elegance that you get over there still wild harvested ? Or are they the same maricultured ones that we are now importing into the UK ?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9298792#post9298792 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Hormigaquatica
All are wild harvested to my knowledge. Ive never even heard of Elegance being maricultured..??
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According to TMC, who are the main importers for all of our livestock in the UK these are being maricultured in there thousands in lagoons in the far east.

The ones currently available over here are being reported as being much hardier than the illegally imported ones that reefers have had over the years.
 
Good to know; I was not aware of that particular program.

Of course, I should know ALL the corals that are being propogated.. lol. duh.

Thanks!
 
I guess he has 4 of them last time I heard. I heard it at our CORA Frag Swap this past year. I guess the mother colony is dropping babies sort of like a goniopora does.
 
in very rare occasions these corals do well, and are fragged and sold for crazy prices due to the fact that they will actually survive..
 
I had heard they were trying to frag them that is really cool especially if they are tougher and survive in captivity !
 
Alot of the mortality is due to conditions in peoples tanks. I really don't think that people take the time to read up on where these animals come from in the wild before they purchase them. IMO based on what I have read and seen, trying to put them in SPS tanks with crazy flow amounts and nearly starved of any food is like asking for the animal to die. I know that something has happened over the years and this coral isn't what it used to be, and it has baffled many people more experienced than I. I say if you are going to buy one of these beautiful creatures atleast give it a fighting chance and put it into some sort of species tank with other corals that need low water flow, low light levels, and alot of food, while still keeping phosphate levels as low as possible.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9307550#post9307550 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SEAFLOWERS
Alot of the mortality is due to conditions in peoples tanks. I really don't think that people take the time to read up on where these animals come from in the wild before they purchase them. IMO based on what I have read and seen, trying to put them in SPS tanks with crazy flow amounts and nearly starved of any food is like asking for the animal to die. I know that something has happened over the years and this coral isn't what it used to be, and it has baffled many people more experienced than I. I say if you are going to buy one of these beautiful creatures atleast give it a fighting chance and put it into some sort of species tank with other corals that need low water flow, low light levels, and alot of food, while still keeping phosphate levels as low as possible.
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:cool: well said that man, i specifically set my tank up as a Elegance theme tank, i even rescaped it so i could put a sandy substrate in to help the cataphyllia settle in without stressing them out. These both eat very well and the colours are amazing, got a nice red goniopora as well as they like similar conditions as the cats.
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Seaflowers, I took your advice and moved my elegance out of the flow patterns in my tank and it has responded by slowly opening back up to full. You gave some of the best advice I have seen on an elegance thread, thank you!

jp
 
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