fragging elegans

[Reefer82]

He's suffered at least one partial tank crash in the years. Lost a lot of livestock but not the elegance. Bounced back obviously stronger than ever. I want to say he said that happened about 10 years ago.

 

[Wiz]

Sweet coral to be one of the survivors. In my 10 years I've had two crashes. First one was only one survivor. Tank overheated while I was camping. Purple tube nem was a champ. Then about 4 years later, ice storm knocked out power for two full weeks! Took me about 5 days, $800 and a two hour drive to find a generator! Lost about $75% of my stock. :-( and burned a hole through an adaptor running a pump and heater off an extention cord too my car! Lol the things we do for our obsession.

 

[mlucisano]

well today I decided to cut my elegance it was just getting to big for the tank
actually folded in half like a taco lol
it is a aussie elegance round cone on the bottom for a skeleton
ill keep posting results
cut it with a 4 inch metal cut off wheel.

 

[mlucisano]

mlucisano my aussie elegance got to big for this 12 gallon setup so instead of going bigger and better I decided to cut and conserve
as you can see in the pic it over ran the tank
it had the cone shape base
the pics are from 10 minutes before I cut it and as I look at the triplets they are holding there own
I will keep all interested in the loop as I keep updating see how it goes cross all fingers
as my intent is to preserve not to extinguish !!!

 

[mlucisano]

one hour after being cut
the triplets looks good I think

 

[mlucisano]

about 15 hours after cutting looks good so far

 

[Gregory Hainey]

What happened after the 15 hr. mark? All good?

 

[Dierks]

Any updates on this??

 

[vetteguy53081]

MAKES sense about splitting the skeleton to force split. I would be deadly afraid of all corals to plan on the elegance as a choice. Mine is the size of a football. I want it to be larger if anything.

 

[terri_ann]

That is awesome! A 20+ year old tanked coral. Seems like something would have went wrong in two decades. Lol must be sweet. Hope im so lucky :-D

well today I decided to cut my elegance it was just getting to big for the tank
actually folded in half like a taco lol
it is a aussie elegance round cone on the bottom for a skeleton
ill keep posting results
cut it with a 4 inch metal cut off wheel.

Update please

 

[reef lover]

Wiz hasnt been around in years....

 

[nitrodude]

I can attest for their hardiness.
Couple years back we had a hurricane and left town. Tanks all died from lack of power....except my basketball sized elegance coral..its still alive today and doing well. It went 4+ days with no power and somehow made it through.

 

[motortrendz]

If you put a rubber band around the skeleton where you want to frag it in about a week to 2 weeks the flesh will start to separate and grow around the band creating a less fleshy spot where you can then cut it on the saw and do less damage to the fleshy surface.

 

[Amhojjat]

I know this is an old post. But I have read that elegance corals can frag themselves.

I also have heard that you can cut the base and eventually the skin will defrag itself. I don’t know how accurate this info is. But apparently it works for info and ausie elegance corals.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I know this is an old post. But I have read that elegance corals can frag themselves.

I also have heard that you can cut the base and eventually the skin will defrag itself. I don’t know how accurate this info is. But apparently it works for info and ausie elegance corals.

Frag itself- Never heard of that. If that were the case, Im sitting on a HUGE problem. This started as a golf ball and larger than a soccer ball

 

[Amhojjat]

Yeah like I said I don’t know how true it is. Just something I heard.

 

[Amhojjat]

Mine is a bit bigger, and has never dragged itself either.