Elegance coral question

[richardb]

I have an elegance coral that is huge if i was to guess it is 8 inches wide by 4 or 5 inches ive had it for more than a month, my question is if i bump it up to a rock will it attach its skin to a rock like my blastos and trumpet corals. bumped them up against rocks and some how they spread to those rocks, lol i think i understand how the blastos did but still dont know how the trumpets did lol but yeah will the elegance do that....

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

I would not place an elegance near rocks. It can damage the tissue.

 

[bjledbetter]

+1 there like a bubble coral it should be left in the sand bed away from anything including other corals.

 

[kingfisherfleshy]

I have both a bubble coral and an elegance up against rocks. My bubble is wedged inbetween two rocks in a crack, and my elegance is in a cave (so top is rock, bottom is sand).

The elegance is doing fine, opens up huge, and eats well. Tough corals - more likely to kill other things than be killed.

To answer your question, no, it will not attach. Think of it as a single head of frogspawn coral or something similar (euphilliya).

 

[richardb]

Well thank you kingfish i aswell have my elegance on rock the skeletal base is atleast 3 inches tall maybe more so the polyps are not touching the rock, on the rare times that it does there is very little flow to damage it so.......... putting it on the sand diddnt work for me because at night my huge **** crabs liked digging it up lol or even climbing it what ever it may have been