MinnieMouse2
Active Member
I have an Elegance Coral. It is doing really well. Eating, fully out, looking puffy. It is in a tank with a Mandarin Fish.
We just lost our mandarin fish that was many years old. It was a female that looked very egg bound. I gave her a magnesium treatment. Nothing worked. She was eating but died. The Elegance Coral was in the tank with her for the last 6 months. I recently bought a male mandarin to replace her and have him in the tank with the Elegance coral. One source online says they carry a poison that will make a mandarin fish sick and swell, but our female mandarin was eating till she died, did not look sick, looked egg bound. Is the Elegant Coral a fish killer full of poison that takes out mandarin fish? Or is this a myth? The only site on the internet that mentions this. " The Elegance coral can harm fish also, by stinging them with their tentacles. Fish that don’t have swim bladders are the most affected as they will drop from level to level in the aquarium. Mandarin Gobies should not be housed with an Elegance Coral as they will eventually bump into it while they are searching for their benthic prey. They will continue to get stung which will cause death after a few days. Fish being stung like this is not pleasant to watch, as they start by developing welts and swell up from the poisons which will kill them slowly." https://www.whogivesafish.com/elegance-coral/
We just lost our mandarin fish that was many years old. It was a female that looked very egg bound. I gave her a magnesium treatment. Nothing worked. She was eating but died. The Elegance Coral was in the tank with her for the last 6 months. I recently bought a male mandarin to replace her and have him in the tank with the Elegance coral. One source online says they carry a poison that will make a mandarin fish sick and swell, but our female mandarin was eating till she died, did not look sick, looked egg bound. Is the Elegant Coral a fish killer full of poison that takes out mandarin fish? Or is this a myth? The only site on the internet that mentions this. " The Elegance coral can harm fish also, by stinging them with their tentacles. Fish that don’t have swim bladders are the most affected as they will drop from level to level in the aquarium. Mandarin Gobies should not be housed with an Elegance Coral as they will eventually bump into it while they are searching for their benthic prey. They will continue to get stung which will cause death after a few days. Fish being stung like this is not pleasant to watch, as they start by developing welts and swell up from the poisons which will kill them slowly." https://www.whogivesafish.com/elegance-coral/
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