Very Elegant Elegance
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Elegance in start life like other stoney corals attached to the substrate (Ie on rocks) They typicaly grow to about 50cm in size remaining attached.
Usualy by around this stage they cant suport themselves during storms any longer, they dont tend to encrust so the fast hold is about the size of a tenis ball.
A storm will dislodge the coral whith its roundish shape it rolls in the storm it ends up in a sea grass bed silty mud or even on the beach.
Other colonies are formed by the damaged frags broken off in the process so often there are often mutlple colonies in the vicinity.
It does no harm to the coral at all to be on rocks, in fact quite natural.
Usualy by around this stage they cant suport themselves during storms any longer, they dont tend to encrust so the fast hold is about the size of a tenis ball.
A storm will dislodge the coral whith its roundish shape it rolls in the storm it ends up in a sea grass bed silty mud or even on the beach.
Other colonies are formed by the damaged frags broken off in the process so often there are often mutlple colonies in the vicinity.
It does no harm to the coral at all to be on rocks, in fact quite natural.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9632772#post9632772 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cristhiam
here is a pic of mine
That looks just like mine! The one I have is about 8" when fully extended. My Clown has adopted it and rarely leaves it. At first it would only open about 1/2 way when the clown adopted it, Now it stays open all day.
reverendmaynard
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When I got mine in July, '06...
Here he is now with his new house guests...
Here he is now with his new house guests...
SupraRacer
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very nice pictures
elegance coral
They call me EC
I have purchased 9 in the past year or so. I lost one because I couldn't keep a banded coral shrimp off of it. I still have the rest. All of them but one are in some stage of this "sickness". The newest one (about two months) shows no signs of it despite being placed close enough to touch two of the sick ones. I have no fear of the rest of them dieing even though they have the "sickness". They are all recovering nicely.
I am doing my own research into this problem. I am taking photos and documenting my progress. I am confident that even if I can't pinpoint the exact cause of the problem I can determine the best way to bring them through the sickness. I also have my own theory as to what is going on with these corals. I am at the point now that I would buy a sick Elegance before I would buy a healthy one. If it is sick I believe I can bring it through. A healthy one has a better chance in someone elses tank than the sick one. Every week my corals get a little better. It is a slow process though. I have corals that were VERY VERY sick and are now well on their way to recovery. Once I have corals that show absolutely no signs of the sickness I will post my findings somewhere for people to see.
I am doing my own research into this problem. I am taking photos and documenting my progress. I am confident that even if I can't pinpoint the exact cause of the problem I can determine the best way to bring them through the sickness. I also have my own theory as to what is going on with these corals. I am at the point now that I would buy a sick Elegance before I would buy a healthy one. If it is sick I believe I can bring it through. A healthy one has a better chance in someone elses tank than the sick one. Every week my corals get a little better. It is a slow process though. I have corals that were VERY VERY sick and are now well on their way to recovery. Once I have corals that show absolutely no signs of the sickness I will post my findings somewhere for people to see.
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redFishblue
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What is your theory? And when you say they were sick what do you mean...was there any deteriorating tissue?
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elegance coral
They call me EC
I tried to post pics of a sick coral and a coral that is well on its way to full recovery. I know Elegance corals, not computers. It just keeps telling me that my file is to big or the wrong format. I will try again when i get home after work today.
I am sorry, but I believe that it is to soon for me to post my theorys right now. Over the corse of my research I have had many theories only to prove myself wrong. i would hate to post something here only to find out later that I was wrong again. I don't believe this to be the case, but..... When i have pics of some FULLY recovered corals and have kept some without them becoming ill for an extened period of time i will post my findings then. I still need to buy more healthy looking corals to see if I can keep them from becoming ill. I have had the one for about two months without becoming ill but I dont feel that this is long enough to prove anything.
I have only had two with deteriorating tissue. The one I lost and the one in the pic i am trying to post that had brown jelly and I had to cut it in 1/2. i don't believe I will have to deal with this anymore though.
The typical Elegance coral sickness is an over inflated oral disk and shrunken tentacles. Fallowed by very little expansion of the polup untill it is sunk back into the skeleton. At this point most people lose their corals.
Thanks for your interest and I will try to get those pics up later today.
I am sorry, but I believe that it is to soon for me to post my theorys right now. Over the corse of my research I have had many theories only to prove myself wrong. i would hate to post something here only to find out later that I was wrong again. I don't believe this to be the case, but..... When i have pics of some FULLY recovered corals and have kept some without them becoming ill for an extened period of time i will post my findings then. I still need to buy more healthy looking corals to see if I can keep them from becoming ill. I have had the one for about two months without becoming ill but I dont feel that this is long enough to prove anything.
I have only had two with deteriorating tissue. The one I lost and the one in the pic i am trying to post that had brown jelly and I had to cut it in 1/2. i don't believe I will have to deal with this anymore though.
The typical Elegance coral sickness is an over inflated oral disk and shrunken tentacles. Fallowed by very little expansion of the polup untill it is sunk back into the skeleton. At this point most people lose their corals.
Thanks for your interest and I will try to get those pics up later today.
elegance coral
They call me EC
Here are the pics, I hope....
Here are the pics, I hope....
This is the pic of the very sick one.
Here are the pics, I hope....
This is the pic of the very sick one.
elegance coral
They call me EC
There has got to be an easier way of doing this
There has got to be an easier way of doing this
This coral once looked like the first one. Its tentacles are getting longer and the polup is growing. It is to early to notice any calcium deposits.
There has got to be an easier way of doing this
This coral once looked like the first one. Its tentacles are getting longer and the polup is growing. It is to early to notice any calcium deposits.
elegance coral
They call me EC
OK so that didn't work so good. Hang on I'm still trying.
elegance coral
They call me EC
3rd try
3rd try
I hope this works better?
3rd try
I hope this works better?
elegance coral
They call me EC
last try
last try
This should be a pic of the sick coral after I cut it in 1/2 to stop the brown jelly. The coral in my 3rd try looked like this one at one time.
last try
This should be a pic of the sick coral after I cut it in 1/2 to stop the brown jelly. The coral in my 3rd try looked like this one at one time.
"Umm fish?"
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If you know something that can help people to save their sick corals, theory or not, it would be really nice if you would share, because there are a lot of sick corals and heartbroken owners.
elegance coral
They call me EC
I understand your point, and this is why I have spent all this time and money on the issue. I wish I had a magic pill that would fix everyones Elegance. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be that easy. The "professionals" in this hobby have focused on dead or dieing corals. They seem content with saying that the parasitic protazoans living in the tissues of these corals is what is killing them. They don't seem concerned with what we can do to help them. Because of this I built the system described bellow and started buying corals. Don't get me wrong, I have all the respect in the world for these professionals and what they do for the hobby. They just wern't answering the question that you,I, and everyone else wants answered.
With that said the reason I haven't said anything about my theories is the fear of giving false information. If people can keep this in mind and still want to know what I have come up with over the past year or so then I will start a new post in this forum and explain my theories
If anyone reads this I would appreciate you letting me know what I should do. Thanks.
With that said the reason I haven't said anything about my theories is the fear of giving false information. If people can keep this in mind and still want to know what I have come up with over the past year or so then I will start a new post in this forum and explain my theories
If anyone reads this I would appreciate you letting me know what I should do. Thanks.
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