Two year old ELEGANCE CORAL dieing, PICTURES

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I see Bryozoans, Sponges, Brittlestars and a Featherduster Worm on the skeleton. I don't think any of these are the problem.
I don't see any tissue necrosis.
Your aquarium environment appears very clean in these pix. What other corals do you have and how are they faring?
What has changed recently?
 
from the way it looks, I'd highly guess that there's some water issues, do any other corals look stressed? Is there anything in your tank that may have stung it? How about any leathers, or anything that could release chemicals into the water? I'd try running some heavy carbon and seeing how that goes, hope it turns out well!
 
I have several soft corals and hard corals mixed about 100 or so. I have zenia that i cut with sissors weekly and they expell stuff when cut ...could that be the problem. Also my phosphates are 1.0 pretty high. one large leather coral too. Everything else in my tank look great, never better, except for my scolomia(not sure the spelling?) but it is having similar effects. Both are about five inches from each other in my sand bed.
 
I just did a 10% water change and put some kent marine phosphate sponge. Hopefully that will help.

I also noticed that my elegance looks like its receding on the base where the tissue ends. When i closes up the middle section has some white base showing. You can kind of see in the second photo, the color and focus is bad. Ill try and get a better pic.
 
At least i learned what not to do with your prize coral. For instance:
dont have any starfish because they are not strong enough to pull away from the elegance in the soft sand when it grabs on.

cleaner shrimp and clowns may also not be the best because they both cause them to not expand as much and the cleaners always take the hand fed food out.

and know im wondering if cutting my zenias is the main problem.

I am already shopping for a replacement.....sad to say.
 
I have alot of xenia in my tank. When I was cutting it under the water, all of my corals seemed to stress for about a week. I, like you, couldnt figure it out for awhile. Then I realized the pattern. It only happened after I cut xenia. After one perticularly large cutting, I had a mass xenia die off, like out on the reef, and I thought I was going to loose all my corals. All the xenia melted away and I had to do crazy water changes. Then about a month later, my tank exploded with xenia again. It was crazy. I only cut small amounts, I mean small, under the water, the rest I pull out and slice off. Im actually recieveing an elegance today from DHL:D(pre-illness) thanks to Holeinone1972, so I will let you know how it reacts when I cut xenia for the first time. Perhaps we can figure this out together.

Jessica
 
Have you changed or added ANYTHING new lately( salt, lights, additives, chemicals,food etc.)
Do you use Kent salt? (low alk. problem)
If it has been in your tank for 2 years I would guess then that you did something to cause this.
(accidents happen)

Highly doubt it is the Zenia, I cut mine all the time and my elegance doesnt even react. BUT, you could have a differnent type of Zenia too.

Mine HATES iodine or anything with Iodine in it like some coral foods.
I killed one about 3 years ago that was in my tank thriving for 4 months, 1 drop of Lugals and within seconds it freaked! Then died within 2 days.

My current one I have had for almost 2 years now and he is growing rapidly. I almost lost him when I dosed Kent Microvert coral food. He FREAKED within seconds. (iodine).
However, after a few water changes and several weeks, he made a full recovery.

See gallary.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7830925#post7830925 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JekasaRabbit
I have alot of xenia in my tank. When I was cutting it under the water, all of my corals seemed to stress for about a week. I, like you, couldnt figure it out for awhile. Then I realized the pattern. It only happened after I cut xenia. After one perticularly large cutting, I had a mass xenia die off, like out on the reef, and I thought I was going to loose all my corals. All the xenia melted away and I had to do crazy water changes. Then about a month later, my tank exploded with xenia again. It was crazy. I only cut small amounts, I mean small, under the water, the rest I pull out and slice off. Im actually recieveing an elegance today from DHL:D(pre-illness) thanks to Holeinone1972, so I will let you know how it reacts when I cut xenia for the first time. Perhaps we can figure this out together.

Jessica
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You lucky dog. I missed out on this coral. Did you get the big one or the smaller one? Be sure to post pics. God I'm sick about missing this one.
 
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