The Elegance Coral Project

dragon_slayer said:
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.

Yes, I would assume the pic was taken when the coral was looking great.

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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Yes, Kathy has sent several photos of her sections, and this time she did it by sectionig tissue and skeleton together and is also doing EM work. I have two last specimens that just finished decalcifying yesterday, and I am getting a healthy cutting today which I will then send to Kathy. I have also taken photos of another ten of the total under normal H&E staining and found similar things, but need to spend some time with Esther and Kathy under the scope once all samples are processsed. I want to do some gram stains an fungal specific stains on unstained slides but haven't had time - been too busy doing fluorescent TUNEL assays on my dissertation specimens and working on developing other really cool things for SDR...antibodies against caspases and cadherins, in addition to having to run gels on a couple hundred other specimens, working on describing a new Porites species (I hope), some white pox sections, several pathogenic flatworms and ciliates, a clam disease, co work with possible white plague variations and microbiology involved, coral culture systems, SECORE project, a coral farming workshop for next year, coral polyp extrusions, aquarium reproduction, proposal writing, finishing a paper on Easter Island corals, picking up a genetic study linking corals from the eastern and western pacific, writing and editing for RK mag, speaking, traveling, diving, posting here and other boards including Latin ones, planning next year's MACNA, heading a salt study, Flower Gardens research on mottling syndrome, apoptosis induction by microinjection, developing coral cell culture matrices, working on a method to unfix formalin fixed coral tissue by uncrosslinking, and paper writing. More on that at some time in the future. ;)
 
I don't know that its a fungal infection, and I doubt it because the organisms are in the tissue not in the water...although it would perhaps....perhaps...slow or prevent infections of other elegance in tanks.
 
I lost my elegance coral. Now that I'm educated about what a healthy one looks like I see so many online that are sick for sale.
Seems 99% look sick.
 
Wow.

What an awesome thread/project! I just found out about it and spent quite a few hours today reading through this thread. I was just wondering if donations are still needed or if funding for this project is on hold?

I'd like to thank you Eric for such an undertaking and wish you the best of success. These corals are absolutely amazing and it would be great to see them have a high rate of survivability in both the wild and our aquariums. I really hope this comes true, and it's great that you are trying to do something about it.

I wish you the best,
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6390531#post6390531 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Psyire
Wow.

What an awesome thread/project! I just found out about it and spent quite a few hours today reading through this thread. I was just wondering if donations are still needed or if funding for this project is on hold?

I'd like to thank you Eric for such an undertaking and wish you the best of success. These corals are absolutely amazing and it would be great to see them have a high rate of survivability in both the wild and our aquariums. I really hope this comes true, and it's great that you are trying to do something about it.

I wish you the best,


I know nothing about the funding for this project, but I didn't want you to feel as if you were being ignored. Eric has decided to take a break from the boards for a while. Read this
 
Thanks, Larry for answering and for the link. Somehow I missed the "noise" and don't know what's going on with that. Hope it works out soon.

Thanks Psyre for the offer. I've been taking care of the donations for Eric and we're good for where the research is right now. We don't know if any more will be needed until Eric knows more about the direction the research will need to go.

Thanks!

Cathy
 
Just looked through the board and found the noise. Glad I missed it and will definitely stay out of it.

Hope to see you back soon Eric.

Here'e best wishes for 2006 to be the year of major breakthrough for the Elegance and any other research you do.

Happy New Year!
Cathy
 
I don`t believe it is a question of Eric being gone, I believe it is a question of Eric being busy. If you had any idea of how many things he is working on, not to mention that he has to travel often, you would understand that this is a project that requires extensive amounts of time to complete. Look how long researchers have been trying to fight Cancer. Maybe not the best analogy but it is along the same idea.
I`m just as anxious as the next person to see his conclusions, however I realize that anything that has to do with research is time consuming.
I have been waiting myself before I buy an elegance, as I really think they are some of the most beautiful corals there are. But will not buy something that is endangered, and has a poor chance of survival in a closed system until I see Mr. Bornemans` findings.

Hope I didn`t step on any toes with this message, that was not my intent.

:beachbum:
 
placement

placement

Ok I have not read every post on this thread but as I look at many of the pics potsed it seems as if a lot of owners of elegance have palced there coral on LR or near other corals or rock. I have been reading up on this particular corla for awhile now and was wondering if all the hype of placement is as crucial as one reads: sand bed, away from algea, corals, rock?
 
If there are any advances to this project in the future please be sure to let everyone know on this thread where to find those advances. I don't know who this is to, but someone close to Eric and involved in the project. Thanks.
 
I emailed Eric a few days ago and he did say it would be updated. I didn't bother to ask if he would do it or someone else would, but I felt assured that we will see the results here at RC.
 
all that bogus about the sandbed, algae, light. Thats all it is, bogus. I've got mine in the middle of my tank, directly under 250w MH, 15K and its fine, for about a year. I've been through my share of them, but its the one coral that got me started in reefing, so I got lucky finally, and I think thats all it will come down to for acquiring a healthy one is luck, 1 out of 1000.
 
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