Elegance Coral Problems

[Rispa]

It was doing great and even grew two new mouths, then I think I ticked it off. It might have been stung by a favia or maybe chemical warfare and soft corals caused it. What do you think? I'm not seeing the usual tissue recession and it did well for a month or more. I've done an iodine dip. The next thing I'm thinking is to move it into a different tank that only has clove polyps. Or maybe make a 1 gallon tank just for it.

 

[Rispa]

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[eraserhead187]

Pretty much the same thing happened to me. Mine was beautiful and thriving. Then suddenly there was one small part of it that had a white spot on it, around which the tentacles closed. Then it started getting gray like that. Thought it may be elegance coral syndrome after posting on here, so I fragged it. Both frags are actually still alive (been about a month or so) but neither seems to be growing or bouncing back terribly well. Not sure what the deal is, and wish I could be of more help. Will it accept food by chance?

 

[Rispa]

Pretty much the same thing happened to me. Mine was beautiful and thriving. Then suddenly there was one small part of it that had a white spot on it, around which the tentacles closed. Then it started getting gray like that. Thought it may be elegance coral syndrome after posting on here, so I fragged it. Both frags are actually still alive (been about a month or so) but neither seems to be growing or bouncing back terribly well. Not sure what the deal is, and wish I could be of more help. Will it accept food by chance?

I think it's still eating, but am not completely sure. Did you add Anthony new to the tank that could have caused it for you?

 

[Donsreef]

That happened to me and my friends elegance coral.
Is it a cone bottom elegance?

 

[Donsreef]

Where do you buy it from?

 

[eraserhead187]

Nope. Wish it was more obvious. Everything else has been doing great and growing like crazy. I even have a Duncan that had been ticked off hiding in his rock for 2 months that is now huge. Doesn't make any sense. Nobody ever bothered the elegance either...

 

[eraserhead187]

Where do you buy it from?

Mine is a cone also, yes. I got it from a frag swap convention nearby in Indianapolis. Reputable guy, as far as I have heard.

 

[Rispa]

That happened to me and my friends elegance coral.
Is it a cone bottom elegance?

Cone bottom and from Unique.

 

[Donsreef]

It is something with cone bottom species we went through the same problem with the cone bottom. I dipped it, move it to a low flow in coner in the tank. The only thing I didn't do was run carbon to see it helps.

 

[Rispa]

What about temperature? I think my tank currently runs between 73 and 75. What temperature do you have yours at?

 

[Rispa]

It is something with cone bottom species we went through the same problem with the cone bottom. I dipped it, move it to a low flow in coner in the tank. The only thing I didn't do was run carbon to see it helps.

Did you try moving it to its own tank?

 

[eraserhead187]

That's pretty weird. I keep mine at 78. I tried dipping mine in ReVive. Hard to tell if it helped, maybe a little, but it's still not recovering. He should have been happy. What kind of lighting do you all have? I'm running the Steve'sLED Biocube 32 upgrade kit.

 

[Rispa]

A 2 bulb t5 fixture with one blue and one coral. I think I going to bring mine to my house, set up a very small quarantine tank and dose it with cipro and iodine dips every day. I read about someone having theirs recover that way when I was researching how they do on cipro.

 

[eraserhead187]

Interesting. I've heard of cipro for nems, but not for coral. Don't see why it wouldn't have an affect on something like an elegance that seems very anemone-ish anyway. Keep us posted, where can you get cipro?

 

[Rispa]

Interesting. I've heard of cipro for nems, but not for coral. Don't see why it wouldn't have an affect on something like an elegance that seems very anemone-ish anyway. Keep us posted, where can you get cipro?

Working on that. I may have a vet send a script to an online company

 

[Leadfooted]

I've lost a few and after researching I believe all mine were mostly simply not fed enough. Are you using anything other than roids? Might not be your issue but consider food source as a possibility. Maybe pellets or heavier foods?

 

[Donsreef]

There's a article i read about the infection that type of elegance has and the chances of it recovering in a home aquarium is very low.

 

[eraserhead187]

There's a article i read about the infection that type of elegance has and the chances of it recovering in a home aquarium is very low.

Yeah probably the dreaded elegance coral syndrome. Can you hunt down the article by chance? I have heard that only happens in wild elegances from around Indonesia. No idea where mine came from. If I end up with another some day, I'm going to make sure it's aquacultured or Australian. Hard for me to give ip hope on mine though...

 

[Donsreef]

Do yours look this?