[alfani]

anyone have an elegance. i got an elegance couple days ago, part of the body is almost detached to the rock, will it survive. i think it's trying to leave the rock since that it have holes

[Deanos]

When euphylliads detach from their skeleton, very few survive long enough to rebuild a new one.

[yeahcheetah]

As far as I know, people who kept elegance coral before rarely succeeded. Some were experienced and started with healthy specimen. So, good luck to you.

[rookie07]

I had an elegance for about 3 months...then I sold it to someone on this site...It was doing great, seamed to like strong flow, direct lighting....it was healthy as hell, but it was from australia...theyseem to be better suited for life in tanks(Not that anything really is..but you know what I mean)

[alfani]

Quote: Originally Posted by rookie07 I had an elegance for about 3 months...then I sold it to someone on this site...It was doing great, seamed to like strong flow, direct lighting....it was healthy as hell, but it was from australia...theyseem to be better suited for life in tanks(Not that anything really is..but you know what I mean)

I read the opposite thing, that elegance prefer low flow, just enough so that their tenticles moves and be kept in sand. does not like to be in rocks and strong direct lighting

[rookie07]

yeah...thats what I read aswell, I guess mine was weird......
I had mine in sand, but I was told by the place I got it(dr mac online) that I should place it up high in the rocks...I have 150W MH, they said place it high in tank.
I put it in sand in a corner and it loved it....Its tenticals werent moving like crazy, but they moved all the time.
I guess there are always exceptions to the rule.....
Best of luck.
Read the thread deanos started about elegances...has some gd info in his link.

	MH Metal Halide Lighting, typically used for high intensity light demanding corals such as SPS. Bulbs come in varieties of spectrums (7k, 10k,20k), and intensity (175W, 250W, 400W).

[lunner]

Quote: Originally Posted by alfani I read the opposite thing, that elegance prefer low flow, just enough so that their tenticles moves and be kept in sand. does not like to be in rocks and strong direct lighting

I kept mine at the bottom in the sand, with low flow. And it seems to be fine for 6 months now.

[reefman]

These corals occasionally “bail out” of their skeletons (Borneman 2006), and may do so in response to poor water parameters or from other undetermined causes or stresses (Figure 1). This is not a normal form of reproduction, but seems to be an “escape” reaction and invariably leads to the colony’s loss. The unattached colony of polyps can live for a long time with good water quality and care but, to my knowledge, never again produces a skeleton, despite perhaps maintaining the potential to do so through the calicoblastic epithelium's cellular calcification mechanisms. Invariably, the inability to keep a detached colony affixed in the aquarium results in its accidental demise. I am not aware of any long-term survival of an elegance colony that has become detached from its skeleton, or any that have again begun to produce a skeleton.-Borneman, E.H

link

[heuerfan]

Here's rookie07's gorgeous elegance in its new home. Been about a month now and it appears to be happy. It is also on a rock about 15" from 150 watt de and 2x39watt T5.

[muntai]

they r very hardy for the 1st few months. i rarely seen them alive for more than 9 months max.
especially the neon n purple tip ones.