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01/11/2018, 06:13 AM | #1 |
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Is this a healthy elegance?
Hello, new to marine tanks....had mine up and running for 3 months now. Bought an elegance from a LFS about 3 weeks ago and I'm just wondering if it appears healthy. Read quite a bit about them and I believe it depends where it's from and they can be rather difficult to keep. It seems happy, sticky tentacles that grab bits of shrimp from my tweezers and quickly manoeuvres to one of its 9 mouths. I'm just concerned that the tentacles don't seem as long as in pictures of healthy ECs. It also appears to be asexually reproducing....there is a tiny skeleton forming off one side just uner the tentacles. Can't see it when it's extended but will try get a photo later this evening when it closes up a bit.
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Looks healthy to me and has very nice color. The growth on the outside of the skeleton is probably a barnacle or something, I would scrape it off.
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I totally gave up on those corals
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Yeah I have that problem with leathers your not alone
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Elegance are typically found on the sand. Looks nice and healthy to me also.
Does it have a cone shaped bottom? If it does, put it on your sandbed deep enough so the polyps lay out on the sand when open.
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If you choose to keep it on the rockwork, I would suggest a flat rock where it can lay its polyps out and glue the hell out of it. These are pretty fragile corals and even a small fall can cause it to have an unrecoverable injury. Another reason most of us keep them on the sandbed besides that's where they are typically found.
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Well I have since moved the elegance back into the sand bed, it wasn't extending fully up on the rockwork so moved it back down. It seems really happy again. The 'baby' is looking like it won't be long till it drops! Better photo this time
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Honestly the elegance doesn't look to be that happy. Elegance corals have very long tentacles when in optimum health. Long term survival rates with Elegance corals are pretty dismal.. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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How is the coral doing? If you could, post and updated pic. I'd love to see any progress. It makes me happy when I see an elegance that has survived in a tank. I used to work at a LFS when I was in high school about a decade ago and would refuse to allow the owner to get in elegance corals bc all they would do is die in ours and customer tanks. I feel this is one of those corals that are better left in the wild. I have heard that Australian elegance corals have a better success rate though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Here's a couple of photos
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not the first pics, but the last few you posted look healthy.
3 weeks is a very short time, if aussie make pass 4 months, you should be good. if indo, 1 year will be a safe mark.
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03/05/2018, 04:40 AM | #20 |
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I've had it for just under 3 months now
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03/05/2018, 04:41 AM | #21 |
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Here it is this morning
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Looks happy and healthy to me. Nice piece.
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Any update pics?
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