New elegance showing skeleton

[Reefer1991]

It ended up dropping the food and I fed it a much smaller peice later that day. This time I saw the coral "swallow" it. Yet this morning I wake up and the food was laying next to the coral almost like it regurgitated it. Any ideas? Also on the side where the skeleton is showing, the tentacles are very small. Can anybody people give me an idea on what could cause that? Thank you

 

[Reefer1991]

Can somebody please tell me if the small tentacles in the one area is something to worry about? I have been watching it closely everyday and I would like to know if it's no big deal so I can have some relief. I have also noticed black dots on some of the tentacles. I circled some in the one picture. Any idea what that is or is it just part of the coral. I really appreciate any ideas. I just want some opinions. Thanks!

 

[Reefer1991]

The dots are hard to see in the original pic so here's another

 

[lilyost4290]

It looks pretty healthy to me. No idea on the black dots though

 

[Reefer1991]

It looks pretty healthy to me. No idea on the black dots though

Thank you I feel much better now haha. I saw one of the dots move. Maybe flatworms? They are very tiny ( the tip of a thumb tac). They are so tiny that I can't really describe any physical features. They just look like tiny black/brown dots. One is shaped a little different than others, ovalish with two spike looking things on the one end. The spikes look almost as if you took an oval, and than sliced a "n" shape put of the one end. Not sure if that makes any sense but it does in my head lol!

 

[Reefer1991]

I have been searching everywhere online and I can't find a single thing that looks like these. The brown flatworms that most people get look much larger and lighter in color than the ones I have. Maybe they just haven't grown that large yet? Im freaking after reading all of these horror stories with flatworms. Some of the tentacles look shriveled where the dots are. Others look fine but have a dot also. I'm pretty frustrated because I can't figure out what these are and I'm not sure if I should remove the elegance. Some look almost as if they're inside the tentacles, but I'm not too sure. It might just appear that way.

 

[jstack]

Looks fine an yes I could show u mines recovery over the last 2 months I went from 4 mouths to one in about an hour when mine took a turn for the worse I grew it from the one mouth. Over the last 2months it has recovered one mouth an looks to be recovering nicely had it about 11 months now . I would not feed it directly or it will stress takes slot of energy I keep mine in a small tub so I can feed it juice from my lrs reef frenzy mixed with reef roids outside the tank . Even when mine was healthy more often then not he would have some food in his tentacles. I think mine preferred tiger conchs and any other snails who were unlucky enough to come in contact . Pile of shells around mine.....

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[Reefer1991]

Looks fine an yes I could show u mines recovery over the last 2 months I went from 4 mouths to one in about an hour when mine took a turn for the worse I grew it from the one mouth. Over the last 2months it has recovered one mouth an looks to be recovering nicely had it about 11 months now . I would not feed it directly or it will stress takes slot of energy I keep mine in a small tub so I can feed it juice from my lrs reef frenzy mixed with reef roids outside the tank . Even when mine was healthy more often then not he would have some food in his tentacles. I think mine preferred tiger conchs and any other snails who were unlucky enough to come in contact . Pile of shells around mine.....

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If you have pics of the corals recovery process I'd definitely be interested to see.

I actually just purchased reef chilI the other day but haven't gotten to feeding the tank yet. Ill give it a shot tomorw and see how all my corals react. I am hoping the section where the tentacles are tiny is just caused from where the coral receded from the Skeleton. Hopefully it's recovering.

Do you have any idea what those brown dots are? I'm leaning towards them being inside of the actual coral, but I may be wrong. It's hard to tell. I hope it's not flatworms or worse. I might dip it but I'd hate to stress the coral.

 

[Reefer1991]

Bump. Does anybody know what these dots are?

 

[jstack]

mine had those at one point I would not trip. heres some pics last is the day I moved it I looked more natural on the sand bed I made an error during a water change moving things around and I left half of it completely open to direct bright light even tho it had been resting mid tank look back in my older post to see it grow. anywho I was down to the one now I have 2 and more tissue growing soon 3.

 

[FireReeferSteve]

When they get fragged most of the time they don't make it.


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[Reefer1991]

The corals closed up now and clear slime is oozing from its mouths. There are black dots in the slime so maybe the coral is trying to expel whatever those dots were out of it? I have no idea but if this coral dosent make it I think I'm done with elegances. It's a shame tho because it's my favorite coral.

 

[lionfish300]

On DD they offer 2 kinds Aussie or Indo. Which did you purchased? They said that Aussie is more easier. I wonder this is true?

 

[Reefer1991]

I got an aussie. Here's a picture from this morning. It has looked like this for 3 weeks.