Caring for an elegance

[i cant think]

This isn’t a scenario I see often - in fact it seems to often be the opposite.
But, my elegance is already getting big within 3 weeks of owning it. It’s now 5-6” long and 3” wide.
So I wanted to show it off and what I’ve done so far.

I keep it in fairly moderate to high flow with fairly high light I believe it’s around 275-300 on the sand. I don’t feed it specifically however I do broadcast feed my fish so generally all my LPS get something for food. I keep my parameters fairly low with;
Phosphates at 0.1ppm
Nitrates at 10ppm
Magnesium at 1450-1500 (sometimes it will go to over 1600 after a water change which is where I prefer it as I’ve not seen any negative effects).
Calcium generally stays stable at 480
And my Kh I prefer to keep higher at 9dKh, sometimes I will let it rise to 10dKh when my clams are in their growth period. This is due to them just absorbing it and it would go from 8 down to 6 within a week. And I plan to try and keep 3 of them.
And I do also want to keep Gonis (currently I have one alveopora and a potential Bernard) so I try to keep my Manganese at 2ug/l. However, I don’t believe this truly affects the Elegance in any way. But it definitely shows my Acros to do better.

Generally, I do a weekly 25% water change of 15l (4G). Which keeps most of my parameters stable. But I do dose Reef Zlements Ph Plus which adds to the stability of all of my parameters. I mainly dose it for the Kh side but it does help with other parameters dropping.

Also, it has yet to take out fish in my tank, and it’s surrounded by gobies and wrasses that swim through it.

I hope this helps some of you struggling with them

 

[Cichlid Dad]

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[Outlaw Corals]

Nice elegance i just got one in yesterday a Malaysian lemon drop, I have struggled with elegance in the past so wanted to go with a Malaysian, being that they are the most hardy