New coral addition

[laciex]

These are my new addition that I just got three hours ago. they are an elegance coral, flower pot coral and a green branching hammer coral. For three hours they have expend up quite well! Give your experience on elegance corals because I know they can be hard to keep.

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Moved to current forum: LPS discussion.

Great additions!!

 

[laciex]

Thank You

 

[jherrman]

I used to visit a very nice pet store quite often and they had an enormous elegance coral. Then one day it looked ill so I asked about what was wrong with it and they told me that elegance coral don't usually live very long. Idk how true that is as I've never had one but they are very beautiful pieces

 

[laciex]

It really depends what type it is. I live in Australia so we only get the Australian type which are the hardy ones. The ones that die out quick usually are from Indonesia reefs because they are at different depths etc. I hope I can keep this one for a long time because its my favourite coral and it has opened up quite well.

 

[tyler1503]

The Aussie ones are pretty good. I used to work in an LFS and I had one in the display I was looking after. It was at the shop before I got there and it was still alive and strong when I left 2 years later
We had it under slow-medium flow and a quad t5 fixture, but I can't remember the tube combo.

 

[laciex]

What were your perimeters on the display tank (PH, Nitrate etc.) Did you feed it what were some things that made it thrive? I just want to know because I want to keep mine for a long period of time thanks

 

[tyler1503]

I honestly can't remember parameters sorry. This was a few years ago.
I used filtered ocean water, not a salt mix and I didn't directly feed it, but I like to over feed my tanks a bit so it caught mysis and hikari carnivore frozen mix from time to time. I only had a pair of clowns, a coral goby and a Talbots damsel in with it, among with other corals and CUC.
I doubt that was very helpful, but hopefully you get something from it

 

[laciex]

Thank You nah I got some good info!

 

[laciex]

Coral update:

2x birdsnest coral frags they were 5 bucks so I just got them (post care requirements and recommendations if you have any)
1x neon green toadstool

 

[tyler1503]

Birdsnests are known to be on the easier end of SPS keeping. Just keep up with maintainance and provide medium/high flow, medium/strong light and stable parameters and you should be fine. I haven't had heaps of experience with them though, so maybe someone else will chime in.
How's the elegance going?

 

[laciex]

The elegance is going fine its opening up wide but when I brought it it has a slimy orange stuff on the skeleton and it still has it I will post a picture because I don't know what it is

 

[tyler1503]

Awesome! I want another one, but I'm not sure how it'll go at home without the resources I had at the LFS.
Is it more like a browny orange? Or does it fluoresce under actinics?

 

[laciex]

it is like a fluorescent colour

 

[laciex]

also my sump inlet creates a lot of micro bubbles and so does my skimmer how do I stop this? thanks

 

[tyler1503]

My elegance used to produce a fluorescent slime too. It didn't affect the coral at all, but elegance corals are funny like that, some are extremely hardy and others not, even the Aussie ones. It should be ok, but keep an eye on it
Is your skimmer new? It may just be breaking in still. Is it a constant stream of micro bubbles or does it do it for a few days then stop?

 

[tyler1503]

Without knowing exactly how your sump is set up, I cant say for sure why your return line is making bubbles. It may be pulling in the skimmers micro bubbles and pumping them into the tank?

 

[laciex]

Well the skimmer has been running for two months and its a constant stream (bubble magus n

ac 3.5). Do you have any photos of the elegance and the slime is orange not too worried about it though! But the inlet produces so many from the overflow. Hers some pictures of my elegance and my birds nest frag. dies the frag look happy?

 

[tyler1503]

It possible it's just a longer than usual break in period. You can put some small sponges over the output from the skimmer. It will stop most of the bubbles, but it will reduce efficiency.
Sorry, I don't have anything but the memories when it comes to that tank. I wish I took a bit more interest in it haha.
Your elegance looks very happy the birdsnest looks happy too, but you won't know for sure for a few weeks till he gets settled in.