Swollen Elegance Coral
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KrisReef
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I think it’s happy!
Plate coral and other coral will inflate like this. My plates would move across the tank and land on top of other coral and then eat them slowly by warfare and stealth!
Acanthophyllia are another coral that will inflate like this. I don’t know if these have been documented moving around like this in the wild? I have seen aggregations of tongue coral in a sand indent near a reef crest in a lagoon and I suspect that they all got there by inflating and riding the currents into the same valley?
Do you feed your elegance? It might be glad for a nice chunk of squid, shrimp, or salmon, they like meaty food.
Plate coral and other coral will inflate like this. My plates would move across the tank and land on top of other coral and then eat them slowly by warfare and stealth!
Acanthophyllia are another coral that will inflate like this. I don’t know if these have been documented moving around like this in the wild? I have seen aggregations of tongue coral in a sand indent near a reef crest in a lagoon and I suspect that they all got there by inflating and riding the currents into the same valley?
Do you feed your elegance? It might be glad for a nice chunk of squid, shrimp, or salmon, they like meaty food.
dkelley
Active Member
How did your elegance do with this. I have one and the same state as that one. Curious if things went well or if I should do a freshwater dip for potential ECD or???y’all… what in the everloving heck is my elegance coral doing? it looks like he’s about to float away!! Anyone know what’s going on and what I should do? Halp.
@dkelley That's a happy elegance, do nothing. Be alarmed when LPS deflate for long periods not when they are inflated.
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Outlaw Corals
Well-Known Member
It’s not a happy elegance at all, it’s the beginning of the end for it I’m sorry but when that happens there is nothing you can do to save it, there is a name for when that happens i just can’t remember
dkelley
Active Member
Even with tentacles that are very short? It's been in an odd mood half closed the last week so I threw a towel over the portion of the tank to block light in case it was too much. I've only had the thing a month. At first it was long wispy tentacles and the coral was open, then half close, then this super puffy no tentacles deal.
No mucus or white stuff, oral discs don't look bad to me but I'm not an expert.
The pics I took don't show how swollen/puffy it is. I'm game for the puffy but why are the tentacles all retracted if it's happy? Curious if I should do the freshwater bath to treat for ECD or just wait it out. WAY too many conflicting opinions.
Maybe the OP will chime in.
dkelley
Active Member
Thanks. I have read a couple, not sure if it was Orion. I do know that one of the treatment articles just did a fresh water dip for 15 minutes, like tap water...... Maybe that should be the first go to.
Do people think I need a QT tank on this or will a dip and place back in DT be good?
Tcook
2500 Club Member
I don’t remember about QT but he applied this to PMD for clams and did recommend moving them for clams. Here’s the article
www.reef2reef.com
Elegance Coral Syndrome Diagnose and Treatment with Fresh Water Dip
Elegance Coral, Catalaphyllia jardinei, is a LPS that is very beautiful easy and is one of my favorite LPS. Since early 2000, it was well known by reefers that Elegance coral is easy to care for, unless it contracted Elegance Coral Syndrome (ECS), a universally fatal disease with no known cure...
www.reef2reef.com
