Elegance Corals are an Affordable Substitute to Torch Corals

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There’s a full-on Gold Rush going on right now with Torch corals, and that has multiplied the price into unobtainium territory for most people, ourselves included. We just can’t, in good conscience, spend hundreds of dollars for a single coral that just a year sold for a reasonable, especially when there’s a perfectly good ‘alternative’ to […]
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The atrocious track record with elegance corals was due to many of the Indonesian specimens originally collected had a viral or bacterial pathogen that would cause them to melt. Sometimes months after introduction to the tank. For some reason, Australian elegance corals don’t carry the pathogen, abd since they became the dominant imported species after the indo ban started, the issue disappeared almost overnight.

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Those particular morphs are way to expensive in my end. Anything slightly different from normal normally got a high price tag.
 

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