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02/19/2008, 07:37 PM | #51 |
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Anyone lose any fish to an elegance before?
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02/19/2008, 08:20 PM | #53 |
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I personally haven't, but I have seen a shallow display tank full of Elegance corals and probably 100 or more small fish. There were fish skulls in the sand around the Elegance corals. In this case I just don't think there was enough room for the fish to avoid the tentacles.
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02/21/2008, 08:38 PM | #56 |
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This thread is really cool, keep posting pictures of your elegance, they are awesome corals. I may get one soon, just waiting to find a good specimen.
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02/25/2008, 05:46 PM | #57 |
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elegance coral
Hello .. here is my elegance coral...sorry about the bad pics. The coral is ca 50cm x 30cm x 30cm. This is offcourse my favorite corall...no doubt. As you can see..my Bangai fishes loves to roam in it
This is a (bad) shot from above..The coral uses all the aquariumspace when fully open...ca 50cm. I will need to rearange my rockwork soon. The tank is 320 liters and the coral covers 1/4 of it.
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I don't see the pics...
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Sorry...
Sorry about that...I deleted the pictures in my gallery , that was not a smart move hehehe.
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Here is my aussie I got a couple of weeks ago.
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02/28/2008, 09:46 PM | #61 |
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I feel in love with the Aussie ones last year at a LFS down in Tampa. I was tempted to buy on then but my tank was full of SPS. Now that I got the "Been there, Done the SPS thing" t-shirt, I've started selling them off.
Of course I run across this thread and I guess it is time to start looking for an Aussie Elegance again. My dumb question for the day is: Can you frag elegance corals, say if it gets to big?
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This is a very poor pic of one of my Elegance corals hosting a pair of clowns. This relationship usually turns out poorly for the Elegance. In my opinion this is not a wise thing to allow. |
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Okay I blame this thread on my spending habits!!
Here is the Aussie Elegance I picked up yesterday at the new LFS in town. $80!! Now my question is how much flow will these guys take? As you can see in the picture the flow is pretty strong. I've turned my Vortech pretty much all the way down.
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Aussies are found higher up in the reef, so they can withstand stronger flows than indio's, but a vortech may be to strong. If the polyps are getting a good sway in the water, but not getting blown over, than you have hit the sweet spot.
Also, most reefers keep their Cati's on the bottom of the tank, especially considering how much the polyps can extend. If the flow was not to strong, the coral on the left would be getting stung by now to, by the way. Polyp extension is going to be your best guide, if it's short the flow and position may not be suitable, more so the flow, so play around with the vortech. If your polyps are getting out to 3-4 inches in the next few days, then I wouldn't change a thing |
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Got this little guy about a week ago and it's doing well so far. I had to pull 2 gal crabs out of it the day after i brought it home, but since then its been great. I was told it came in with an aussie shipment, but who knows if it actually came from australia or if it was just shipped through there. Any length of time i should wait before i get my hopes up that its healthy and going to make it?
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my elegance has not been opening up as much the last week.
I think I might have made a mistake when I tried feeding it some squid I got from the asian market. A couple days after feeding it I saw what appeared to be a few 'white streaks' emanating from the mouths I fed under the tissue. Could that be food stuck in the digestive track that it doesn't agree with? I'm not sure if it was that or my crappy glass heater. I saw the temp rise to 84 this week. I've been turning the dial on the heater down ALOT, and the tank is still 82, even though I the dial on my glass heater is at 70 :P thankfully I just got my ranco and some aquamedic titanium heaters. hopefully should never have that problem again. It's starting to bounce back a little.
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also just got a bunch of new test kits and spent the last hour testing parameters.
pH 8.05 (sometimes gets as low as 7.9 at night, but is usually around 8.2-4 during day). Pinpoint pH monitor. alk: 8dKH, API Calcium: 380ppm, API Salinity: 1.025, sybon refracto Amm: 0, API nitrites: 0, API nitrates: 0, API Phosphates: 0, API Silicate: <0.03ppm (salifert) Strontium: 0-3ppm (salifert) I know my strontium is low, today is the first time I've tested it (what a pain!!!!) and I've never added supplements for it. how much does it matter to an elegance? Anything else look funny? Could my water be too clean(lol)? still gotta test for Mg and copper. Ryan
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