Elegance Coral Problems

Rispa · Jun 28, 2018

It was doing great and even grew two new mouths, then I think I ticked it off. It might have been stung by a favia or maybe chemical warfare and soft corals caused it. What do you think? I'm not seeing the usual tissue recession and it did well for a month or more. I've done an iodine dip. The next thing I'm thinking is to move it into a different tank that only has clove polyps. Or maybe make a 1 gallon tank just for it.

Rispa · Jun 28, 2018

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eraserhead187 · Jun 28, 2018

Pretty much the same thing happened to me. Mine was beautiful and thriving. Then suddenly there was one small part of it that had a white spot on it, around which the tentacles closed. Then it started getting gray like that. Thought it may be elegance coral syndrome after posting on here, so I fragged it. Both frags are actually still alive (been about a month or so) but neither seems to be growing or bouncing back terribly well. Not sure what the deal is, and wish I could be of more help. Will it accept food by chance?

Rispa · Jun 28, 2018

eraserhead187 said:
Pretty much the same thing happened to me. Mine was beautiful and thriving. Then suddenly there was one small part of it that had a white spot on it, around which the tentacles closed. Then it started getting gray like that. Thought it may be elegance coral syndrome after posting on here, so I fragged it. Both frags are actually still alive (been about a month or so) but neither seems to be growing or bouncing back terribly well. Not sure what the deal is, and wish I could be of more help. Will it accept food by chance?

I think it's still eating, but am not completely sure. Did you add Anthony new to the tank that could have caused it for you?

Donsreef · Jun 28, 2018

That happened to me and my friends elegance coral.
Is it a cone bottom elegance?

Donsreef · Jun 28, 2018

Where do you buy it from?

eraserhead187 · Jun 28, 2018

Nope. Wish it was more obvious. Everything else has been doing great and growing like crazy. I even have a Duncan that had been ticked off hiding in his rock for 2 months that is now huge. Doesn't make any sense. Nobody ever bothered the elegance either...

eraserhead187 · Jun 28, 2018

Donsreef said:
Where do you buy it from?

Mine is a cone also, yes. I got it from a frag swap convention nearby in Indianapolis. Reputable guy, as far as I have heard.

Rispa · Jun 28, 2018

Donsreef said:
That happened to me and my friends elegance coral.
Is it a cone bottom elegance?

Cone bottom and from Unique.

Donsreef · Jun 28, 2018

It is something with cone bottom species we went through the same problem with the cone bottom. I dipped it, move it to a low flow in coner in the tank. The only thing I didn't do was run carbon to see it helps.

Rispa · Jun 28, 2018

What about temperature? I think my tank currently runs between 73 and 75. What temperature do you have yours at?

Rispa · Jun 28, 2018

Donsreef said:
It is something with cone bottom species we went through the same problem with the cone bottom. I dipped it, move it to a low flow in coner in the tank. The only thing I didn't do was run carbon to see it helps.

Did you try moving it to its own tank?

eraserhead187 · Jun 29, 2018

That's pretty weird. I keep mine at 78. I tried dipping mine in ReVive. Hard to tell if it helped, maybe a little, but it's still not recovering. He should have been happy. What kind of lighting do you all have? I'm running the Steve'sLED Biocube 32 upgrade kit.

Rispa · Jun 29, 2018

A 2 bulb t5 fixture with one blue and one coral. I think I going to bring mine to my house, set up a very small quarantine tank and dose it with cipro and iodine dips every day. I read about someone having theirs recover that way when I was researching how they do on cipro.

eraserhead187 · Jun 29, 2018

Interesting. I've heard of cipro for nems, but not for coral. Don't see why it wouldn't have an affect on something like an elegance that seems very anemone-ish anyway. Keep us posted, where can you get cipro?

Rispa · Jun 29, 2018

eraserhead187 said:
Interesting. I've heard of cipro for nems, but not for coral. Don't see why it wouldn't have an affect on something like an elegance that seems very anemone-ish anyway. Keep us posted, where can you get cipro?

Working on that. I may have a vet send a script to an online company

Leadfooted · Jun 29, 2018

I've lost a few and after researching I believe all mine were mostly simply not fed enough. Are you using anything other than roids? Might not be your issue but consider food source as a possibility. Maybe pellets or heavier foods?

Donsreef · Jun 29, 2018

There's a article i read about the infection that type of elegance has and the chances of it recovering in a home aquarium is very low.

eraserhead187 · Jun 29, 2018

Donsreef said:
There's a article i read about the infection that type of elegance has and the chances of it recovering in a home aquarium is very low.

Yeah probably the dreaded elegance coral syndrome. Can you hunt down the article by chance? I have heard that only happens in wild elegances from around Indonesia. No idea where mine came from. If I end up with another some day, I'm going to make sure it's aquacultured or Australian. Hard for me to give ip hope on mine though...