Asking for advice for my Penny sized Elegance

[David S]

A couple of years ago I purchased an Elegance Coral.
It was a small one, about 3", which fit in well in my 30 gallon tank.
Everything looked nice the first few weeks, with the coral's polyps extending nicely.
Then I began noticing a few of the polyps began curling inward. At first I didn't attach any significance to it, but I really took notice when over the course of a few weeks more and more of the polyps were collapsing inwardly on the body of the coral.
While this was happening the tissue of the coral was also receding.
It had been on the sandbed where it got a fair amount of light and flow. I tried placing it (where it is now) in a low to moderate lighting with low to moderate flow. No difference.
Tried feeding directly. no difference.
So I figured it was a goner, but to my surprise although the fleshy part was reduced to the size of a penny (it sometimes may expand to near nickle size) it never died.
So after sitting on my behind all this time, I've decided to see if it's possible to bring it back to size, so to speak.
Today I took it out of the tank and gave it a few drops of Red Sea Reef Energy A & B and also put a tiny piece of Silversides on its tissue.
If anyone has had a similar experience with their Elegance, and possibly knows what caused its shrinkage, I'd like to know.
If anyone has had any luck bringing them back from said predicament, I'm all ears.
Thanks
David

 

[Crabs McJones]

A couple of years ago I purchased an Elegance Coral.
It was a small one, about 3", which fit in well in my 30 gallon tank.
Everything looked nice the first few weeks, with the coral's polyps extending nicely.
Then I began noticing a few of the polyps began curling inward. At first I didn't attach any significance to it, but I really took notice when over the course of a few weeks more and more of the polyps were collapsing inwardly on the body of the coral.
While this was happening the tissue of the coral was also receding.
It had been on the sandbed where it got a fair amount of light and flow. I tried placing it (where it is now) in a low to moderate lighting with low to moderate flow. No difference.
Tried feeding directly. no difference.
So I figured it was a goner, but to my surprise although the fleshy part was reduced to the size of a penny (it sometimes may expand to near nickle size) it never died.
So after sitting on my behind all this time, I've decided to see if it's possible to bring it back to size, so to speak.
Today I took it out of the tank and gave it a few drops of Red Sea Reef Energy A & B and also put a tiny piece of Silversides on its tissue.
If anyone has had a similar experience with their Elegance, and possibly knows what caused its shrinkage, I'd like to know.
If anyone has had any luck bringing them back from said predicament, I'm all ears.
Thanks
David

Unfortunately I've never had luck with elegance corals, even though they're my favorite LPS. Hopefully someone else can chime in with better advice for you. Good luck and happy reefing!

 

[David S]

Unfortunately I've never had luck with elegance corals, even though they're my favorite LPS. Hopefully someone else can chime in with better advice for you. Good luck and happy reefing!

The purchase was based on the fact that it was an Australian which are supposed to be hardy. To that end it is still alive compared to others I had back when, which would die in short order.
I tried to get one of Cherry Corals "bulletproof" Elegance which was on sale at a very reasonable price but no luck.
They claim it originates from some "secret" location in Indonesia, which is ironic since it was the Indonesian Elegance's which were supposed to be problematic.

 

[jbow50]

I got mine a little over a year ago. I run zeovit now but it has been in various conditions. It's gained maybe 3 or 4 mouths since I got it so I'd say it's at least growing. Plus it's lost it's brown tentacles from the sellers tank to now a bright green florescent color in my tank. I don't normally run blues that deep but it's just a night photo. I don't even feed mine. Just run zeo, feed reef roids every other day, and dose trace elements. It gets ticked maybe once a month and shrinks for a couple of days then puffs right back up.

 

[David S]

I got mine a little over a year ago. I run zeovit now but it has been in various conditions. It's gained maybe 3 or 4 mouths since I got it so I'd say it's at least growing. Plus it's lost it's brown tentacles from the sellers tank to now a bright green florescent color in my tank. I don't normally run blues that deep but it's just a night photo. I don't even feed mine. Just run zeo, feed reef roids every other day, and dose trace elements. It gets ****** maybe once a month and shrinks for a couple of days then puffs right back up.

Nice
I don't use Zeovit but I do have Miracle Mud in my fuge.

 

[mtraylor]

Best advice I can give is. Leave it alone and watch it grow.

 

[David S]

Best advice I can give is. Leave it alone and watch it grow.

M..
I have been watching for a couple of years.
No luck

 

[mtraylor]

LOL. OH ok. Well the only other thing I can think of is that if you have an aquarium with a swinging temp, then it makes it difficult for corals to recover if all your other parms are in check. Especially LPS.