Elegance Coral Help Please

[Patty McDanger]

Went on a trip for a week and came back to elegance coral not looking happy. For the last week it has been puffing up and hasn’t extended its tentacles or fully opened up (not like it has in the past 2 months I’ve had it). Phosphates are a bit high from mother in law over feeding a bit. All other corals seem happy.

Nitrates 1-2
Phosphate .2
Calcium 410
PPM 34
Alk 10.1
PH 8.1-8.2

 

[dedragon]

first thing i think is elegance coral syndrome (ECS), you went on a trip though, have you rechecked your parameters or performed a water change yet?

 

[uhgster1]

Have you fed it? My elegance demands spot feeding at least 1-2 times a week. If I don’t it starts to look like yours. They are hungry critters and I don’t think they do well off light alone.

 

[Patty McDanger]

Yeah I’ve done two 10% water changes this week to try to bring the phosphates down. Got em down from .27 to .2

 

[dedragon]

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[Patty McDanger]

Have you fed it? My elegance demands spot feeding at least 1-2 times a week. If I don’t it starts to look like yours. They are hungry critters and I don’t think they do well off light alone.

Yours looks great! Yeah I feed it once a week. Maybe I’ll give him a snack and see how it reacts.

 

[Pharmasqueek]

Yours looks great! Yeah I feed it once a week. Maybe I’ll give him a snack and see how it reacts.

Update?

 

[kzenoni]

Yours looks great! Yeah I feed it once a week. Maybe I’ll give him a snack and see how it reacts.

I also just got an elegance. Curious what do you feed it ? I would really appreciate any input, I’ve already lost one and would really like to keep this one happy. Thanks

 

[Hydrored]

I also just got an elegance. Curious what do you feed it ? I would really appreciate any input, I’ve already lost one and would really like to keep this one happy. Thanks

I feed mine homemade fish food, but you can just feed them chopped meaty food like mysis, shrimp, oysters, etc

 

[kzenoni]

I need mine homemade fish food, but you can just meet them chopped meaty food like mysis, shrimp, oysters, etc

Thank you I will definitely start doing it. I give all my anemone and crabs silver fish a few times a week and will start the elegance on those days.

 

[Patty McDanger]

Update?

It continued to decline for a few more days and was looking really bad. About a week later I did a 50/50 tank water to 3% hydrogen peroxide dip for 5 mins which seemed to help "clean out" all of the diseased tissue. Unfortunately there wasn't much healthy tissue left after. It is still in the tank, but now only one mouth (it had 4), and there's just a fragment of it left. I'm not even sure if there is enough of it remaining for it to make a comeback (or if its scientificaly possible given the amount of exposed and "unused" skeleton, but it's been this way for a couple weeks, so we'll see. Anyone know if they can bounce back from this?

All water parameters have been stable and my other corals have all looked great during this elegance situation.

 

[Patty McDanger]

I also just got an elegance. Curious what do you feed it ? I would really appreciate any input, I’ve already lost one and would really like to keep this one happy. Thanks

They are such beautiful corals, so i wish you the best of luck this go round!

 

[Pharmasqueek]

It continued to decline for a few more days and was looking really bad. About a week later I did a 50/50 tank water to 3% hydrogen peroxide dip for 5 mins which seemed to help "clean out" all of the diseased tissue. Unfortunately there wasn't much healthy tissue left after. It is still in the tank, but now only one mouth (it had 4), and there's just a fragment of it left. I'm not even sure if there is enough of it remaining for it to make a comeback (or if its scientificaly possible given the amount of exposed and "unused" skeleton, but it's been this way for a couple weeks, so we'll see. Anyone know if they can bounce back from this?

All water parameters have been stable and my other corals have all looked great during this elegance situation.

Mine is going this way, so I'm tempted to try your method.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Looks like ECS. Not much you can do but wait and see, it isn’t contagious to anything but elegance.

 

[Patty McDanger]

There are some threads on here that show limited success with hydrogen peroxide dips and moving to low light and low flow. I feel like it would have worked on mine if I’d have done it earlier since. Better than just watching it die IMO.

 

[Cbones1979]

Same with mine. Doesn’t really open up as much as when it was in the store. I just spot fed him today so we’ll see if it helps

 

[GzO]

Updates?

 

[Patty McDanger]

Updates?

the peroxide dip seemed to help but ultimately I think there was just too much tissue loss to bounce back from.

 

[GzO]

the peroxide dip seemed to help but ultimately I think there was just too much tissue loss to bounce back from.

Sorry to hear that. This mine as of yesterday. Ate a shroom that floated too close, saw brown stuff for 2 days then the shroom, brown stuff for a day or so, now it's whitish.

 

[sfin52]

Have you fed it? My elegance demands spot feeding at least 1-2 times a week. If I don’t it starts to look like yours. They are hungry critters and I don’t think they do well off light alone.

They do like food