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Posted: July 14 2003 at 8:37am |
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I am just wondering what the scoop on this coral is? Degree of difficulty, feeding, lighting, compatability and so on. Thanks!
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Posted: July 14 2003 at 5:28pm |
Well, I thought someone else would take a stab at this. I guess I'll give my take.
IME, the elegance is more difficult to keep then either the torch, hammer or frogspawn. I've killed one elegance... just withered away, while a hammer grew fine. At the time I wasn't feeding the corals anything other then fish food that might have gotten overlooked by the fish. Perhaps it needs more "food" then other LPS? Maybe I just got a bad/sick specimen? It was sold to me as being more hardy then the hammer.
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Posted: July 14 2003 at 5:34pm |
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Thanks Jon - Aquatic Dreams has some beautiful ones up there. A little more than I'm wanting to spend right now anyhow.
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Posted: July 14 2003 at 8:37pm |
I have heard they are hard to keep alive, long. My Dad got one from DFS about a month ago and it is starting to look pretty bad.
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Posted: July 14 2003 at 8:47pm |
I'm surprised others didn't jump on this question, I'll take a stab at it. Elegance corals are naturally found in sandy seagrass areas, not on reefs. Because of this, they don't do well in captivity. One of the more difficult corals to keep, because people usually can't provide a good habitat for them. I would think feeding and light would be important.
this is just my $.01 since I don't even have $.02 on these guys.
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Posted: July 14 2003 at 9:28pm |
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Thanks for the info. I guess I won't be getting one then!
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Posted: July 14 2003 at 10:05pm |
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I have kept elegance corals without any problems. Don't let hard to keep corals intimidate you. I would read some coral identification books before you make a decision. Elegance corals live in the worst environments of the ocean. According to Randy @ MSM, the collectors find them by stepping on them because the water is too dirty to see through it. Again, just here-say but who knows. I would try to feed it directly, but I feed all my corals directly. A healthy elegance coral can be very gorgeous and a great center peice.
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Posted: July 15 2003 at 6:54am |
Quote: Originally posted by Marcus on 14 July 2003
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According to Randy @ MSM, the collectors find them by stepping on them because the water is too dirty to see through it.
*snip*
Ah ha! that's probably why mine died, someone stepped on it  .
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Posted: July 15 2003 at 6:56am |
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hahaha, could have been, just then again whey are you letting your kids walk IN your tank?
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Posted: July 15 2003 at 8:29am |
I can't afford to take the whole family to the caribbean so I let the kids snorkle in the tank... it's cheaper in the long run
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Posted: July 15 2003 at 9:17am |
Great, now I need a bigger tank - I can only get my head in mine...
Seriously though the first meeting I attended was when Julian Sprung came and he talked about elegance corals a bit. I didn't understand much of what he said cause I was so new but it boiled down to most of them are infected with a disease and should be treated with anti-biotics in a quarantine tank before placing them in your show tank. He says if this is done correctly they are actually pretty hardy. (I have no opinion on this just relaying what I remember)
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Posted: July 15 2003 at 9:33am |
The treatment with antibiotics is of course up for debate, as are so many of the topics in this hobby. In this article:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=178150&highlight=elegance
Eric Borneman says, "You may want to try experimental treatments, and Julain Sprung has suggested he has successfully treated elegance with this condition with antibiotics. I have had heard of no success yet by others treating with antibiotics. "
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Posted: July 15 2003 at 12:18pm |
You kinda get the impression that Eric doesn't approve of Julian's methods/observations/conculsion. We should all take heart, even the "talking heads", and there are other "conflicts" other then Eric/Julian, in the hobby don't always see eye to eye, why should anyone expect anything different from us mere hobbiests?
(there must be some money to be made selling books  )
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Posted: July 15 2003 at 6:51pm |
Maybe I was just lucky in keeping mine. I did not treat it all, I just took it out of the bag and dropped it in.
Sarnack, you do not need a bigger tank. Jon only has a 20 and he says his kids snorkel in it. haha.
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Posted: July 15 2003 at 7:58pm |
What can I say, I've got small kids
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