Please help with dying elegance coral!

[MrClownReef]

Bought a month ago approx was doing great for weeks then just stayed closed up. Moved it to my brother's 150 and still never really opened up... now its back in my tank. And it's kinda opening but with these weird bubbles. What are these bubbles and how can I save my dying aussie elegance?!?! Please and thank you!

 

[MrClownReef]

When everything was going great!

 

[rt67ghy]

I would give it an iodine dip. It'll help but you need to try to find out what caused the issue in the first place so you can correct it.

 

[MrClownReef]

I would give it an iodine dip. It'll help but you need to try to find out what caused the issue in the first place so you can correct it.

All parameters are good.

Last week: ph 8.2 ammonia 0 nitrate 0 nitrite 0 phosphate 0

My params are usually always stable.

 

[CrayolaViolence]

Elegance are susceptible to a number of issues. Usually when they start going down hill there is no saving them. But you could try dipping it in antibiotics incase it's a bacterial infection.

 

[MrClownReef]

The elegance opens up like this every morning and seems happy, accepts food and apears to be eating it. I traded the fish that was pestering the elegance for a mushroom. Still no signs of tentacle regrowth...

 

[rt67ghy]

This last pic isn't clear. If it's not falling apart you may still have a chance to save it; it'll be an uphill climb though. You may try placing it in a shaded area because normally light which is too strong can cause them to go downhill.

 

[xanthurum]

Why is every pic with just blue lights on? Could be part of the problem.

 

[MrClownReef]

Why is every pic with just blue lights on? Could be part of the problem.

Just the way my camera makes it look

 

[Reefpuck]

How's it looking? Was this coral from someone else's established elegance, or was this pulled straight from the ocean?

My experience is the ones that are pulled straight from the ocean don't fair well. Although beautiful, these are probably one of the hardest corals to maintain.

Best advice would be to put it in a low flow, low light area on the sand bed, and hope it recovers.

 

[MrClownReef]

Single head frags at my lfs. Still holding on.

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