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looks great, I just picked up an elegance coral from AquaSD live sale, it's a pink tip 3-4" picking it up tomorrow from my buddy, we shared shipping.
what kind of flow should I be looking to place it in? I have a spot in the middle of the tank low lighting low/medium flow.
Only place the cuc and fish couldn’t get to. Darn coral murders a lot of inverts. So it’s primary diet it 3 half piece of krill every 2-3 days and snails, preferably large turbos.
After 20 years in the hobby I picked up my first elegance this weekend and it has a cone shape base. Now I'm not too confident about it's long term survival.
Probably not Indonesian. Maybe collected from a different location in Australia.
Could be a significant difference.
Please let us know how it's doing in a month or two. Hopefully will do well.
Based on the pics shared some people have definitely been very successful. I was wondering if anyone has noticed any specific parameters for these successful tanks? Temp, nutrient levels, feeding schedules, other corals, par, flow, etc..
Cool.
I'm not sure if elegance corals will ingest reef roids, but they'll definitely eat small pieces of fish or shrimp flesh.
I often wonder where the myth of conical base means indo started?
It's simliar to a wall or branching hammer, same coral, just different growth types.
And with the indo ban going on 2 years now, I doubt there are any indo elegance around unless they have survived this long.
Ive lost 5 elegance to ECS, 3 were conical shaped, and 2 were frags of a wall type.
It wasn't until I reset my tank with all new rock and sand can I now get elegance to live. I believe I read when I was researching ECS that the disease can live very long term in our tanks laying wait for a new elegance.
I currently have 2 conical based ones(one purple tipped, and one pink tipped) that are very happy and healthy. Not a great pic, but you can see the 2 on either side of my rockwork.
I think where some people fail with the conical base ones is not placing them on the sandbed(where they are harvested from), and getting them deep enough in the sandbed so their polyps can lay out on the sand, instead of being whipped about cutting themselves on their own skeleton(similar to any other LPS).