The Elegance Coral Project

[poopsko24]

not to knock youre elegance phreebsd, but that is definitly the 1st stages of the disease. I've seen it many times personally.

 

[dragon_slayer]

poopsko24

you can't say defiantly, mine looks like that every morning just prior to lights on and has for years. one would assume though that you'd take a pic when the coral looked at its best.

Edit: the below pic i just snapped, it's now 2 hrs before scheduled lights on time for this system. as you can see the Elegance isn't a pretty sight.

kc

 

[phreebsd]

That pic was first lights on, Actinics only. It was early morning time. .

He's been in captivity for approx 10 months. Acquired from a friend.

 

[dragon_slayer]

so let's see a good pic

kc

 

[phreebsd]

Ill take one after a few hours. The halides just popped on.
I love the color yours has dragon_slayer.

 

[phreebsd]

You're in Enterprise if I remember from reading back. Got any good stores in that area?

 

[dragon_slayer]

No, none at all.

kc

 

[phreebsd]

here's a top down view

 

[dragon_slayer]

still doesn't look to healthy to me

kc

 

[DLBerlin]

Nope -tentacles are way too short

 

[sihaya]

Is this kind of thing only associated with this mystery illness? Is it ever just a "stressed out" reaction?

 

[phreebsd]

crap. We'll see what happens. The tentacles are short, but then I've never seen anyone's with tentacles out like I've seen on here. Guess I've never seen a healthy one in person.

 

[phreebsd]

poopsko24

you can't say defiantly, mine looks like that every morning just prior to lights on and has for years. one would assume though that you'd take a pic when the coral looked at its best.

Edit: the below pic i just snapped, it's now 2 hrs before scheduled lights on time for this system. as you can see the Elegance isn't a pretty sight.

kc

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You got a pic of this guy in his full splendor?

 

[dragon_slayer]

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You got a pic of this guy in his full splendor?

several of them a couple pages back.

kc

 

[phreebsd]

Found it on page 23. Very nice. Excellent that it dropped a bud. You'll have to give lots of updates on it. Everyone here will want to know. I'm sure it's gonna do fine. Aquacultured Elegance!
It'll be great when we get a time period when man figures out what kills the magnificent catalaphyllia and are able to aqua culture them. They are indeed a beautiful lifeform.

 

[dragon_slayer]

starting to run out of disk space in my gallery but here is a 'top down' pic i snapped just a few ago (used auto settings on cam so the white balance is off a bit), it closed up a little when i turned the pumps off, you can't get a top down view with them on the surface is disturbed and the coral is aggressively blowing.

kc

 

[DLBerlin]

I've had this one about a year and a half and it had been in captivity for about 3 yrs. before that. The tentacles avg about 2" long

Top down view:

 

[phreebsd]

Those are excellent. KC - awsome color! Longer tentacles I notice on both. I must say, I've never seen one in person with tentacles like these. They are always shorter.

 

[dragon_slayer]

even a very small Aiptasia Kalk injection that causes any change in pH will cause mine to quickly retract all tentacles and 'balloon' up huge, it looks horrible, i try to not do this often if i can help it but even at its worst it doesn't look as bad as some of the so called healthy ones i've seen trying to be sold in LFSs.

kc

 

[sihaya]

dragon-- and how long does it stay all stressed out like that?