Elegance coral Question

[Surfandturf]

Hi all. My elegance seems to be lifting from it's skeleton a bit. All of my parameters seem fine. I am dosing NOPOX daily, but always have. I have had this coral for about 5 years now in multiple tanks and never had this issue. Any ideas?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Assure you have sufficient calcium, alk, ph and that phosphate/nitrate not elevated

 

[Surfandturf]

Nitrate 5ppm, phosphate 0, calcium 440, and dkh 9.5.

 

[Terry Le]

Any one?

 

[Surfandturf]

The coral seems to have reattached!

 

[polyppal]

Mine have acted up during phosphate spikes, could’ve been something like that

 

[PokeFish]

yay mightve just been eating

 

[Surfandturf]

Nah. I mean I may have a had a phosphate reduction spike if that makes sense. But my phosphates didn't go up. It's weird. In all the years I have owned it, I never saw it detach from its skeleton before.

 

[polyppal]

The fact that it’s not a huge volleyball size colony after 5 years is intriguing to me. Usually elegance blows up once it gets comfortable, maybe it’s lacking in some trace element area

 

[Surfandturf]

It is actually pretty large. Maybe about 12 inches when open fully. Everything was good and then one day it just looked like the bottom peeled off the skeleton. Really strange.

 

[polyppal]

Oh ok, guess the way I’m looking at the picture seemed small, but that’s good!

 

[Surfandturf]

Oh ok, guess the way I’m looking at the picture seemed small, but that’s good!

Yea I zoomed in on it to show the part that was coming off.

 

[Amhojjat]

Hi all. My elegance seems to be lifting from it's skeleton a bit. All of my parameters seem fine. I am dosing NOPOX daily, but always have. I have had this coral for about 5 years now in multiple tanks and never had this issue. Any ideas?

Maybe a freshwater treatment? Looks like an infection.