catalaphyllia-opinions wanted

[triggakilla]

I recently added an elegance coral to my reef thinking it was a hardy species ... for the first two weeks this coral was beautiful,expanding even more fully than when I first saw it.Now it has become withdrawn with short stubby tentacles.After much research I learn that APPARENTLY this is common lately,some people believe that they are being collected deeper / farther out and some people say it is a bacteria that should be cured by dipping the coral in antibiotics.Lemme know what you think .

 

[triggakilla]

BTW, my water parameters are fine,0 amm. nitrates,nitrites ph 8.2,alk.6.1dkh,1.023 sg.salinity. lighting is vho(440watts) Also I fed the coral a piece of shrimp soaked in zeocon two days ago and it consumed it fine...I'm considering moving the coral to the substrate and laying it on it's side(I originally thought that 30" might be too deep for it).

 

[Anonymous]

Well if it is eating and doing well, why move it?

I purchased an elegence a while back and it declined and died over a month. I never could get it to eat well. In a tank with right on water quality as well as other thriving corals. It just gradually stopped expanding and then disintigrated.

 

[Anonymous]

They are finnicky to say the least. I have kept on for almost two years and sometimes it looks good for long periods of time then suddenly looks bad for a while. I thought I was going lose it when I moved the tank a couple of months ago because it started looking horrible. Tissue was beginning to receed in a couple of areas. I up'd the feeding of frozen formula one which still accepts. I thinks since it is feeding it will live. The receeding tissue seems to have stopped.

Maybe they are all females.. :roll:

Louey

 

[triggakilla]

Here's another theory...a parasite called a "Gall crab"! I'm gonna try to look for evidence of this and then move the coral to the substrate. OR maybe Louey is right and i'll just feed it some "Midol".