Hi everyone, i really need some help, in the last week my green elegance coral has started to look really wierd, shrivelling up and closing up and i think it might be dying. it has been in our tank two months and i have never seen it look like this before. Since its arrival we have done nothing different we haven't added anything except the orange soft corals and our water changes and tests always seem to be normal. the hermit crabs started climbing on it today and i hear thats a bad sign, PLEASE HELP ME to save this beautiful coral, im so sad that it seems to be struggling! any info you have will help, thanks so much, Sam x
i think my green elegance coral is dying PLEASE HELP!
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Blue Space
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pics would help... what are your parameters, location in tank, flow, lighting?
Fortunately few of them join the "I bought another beautiful Elegance Coral" club. This coral has a VERY dismal survival rate in our glass boxes.
to ReefSanctuary, a real Sanctuary of reef forums, with lots of very nice members
Here one :read: https://sites.google.com/a/asira.org/www2/catalaphyllia(elegancecoral)
sad to say... I lost mine too after a year... agree they do seem to be difficult, one of the few I have lost
Strangely enough, this was not always the case. In the early days of reef keeping, when trickle filters were the state of the are, elegance was expensive, but usually did well. There have been various theories advanced as to why it's now considered difficult. I will list some of them.
The elegance collected today is from much deeper waters and a different type.
Reef systems back then didn't filter the water as pure as we do today, and usually had a lot more nitrates and other "food" stuff in it.
Reef systems back then used much less circulation, and used much less light.
The coral is often not placed correctly in the tank.
The coral is not fed correctly.
The coral is out competed by the corals we keep today, chemical warfare and such.
Personally, I can't point to any combination of the above reasons that would deem to give a definitive answer. You can do everything "correctly" and the coral can still fail. Of course, if we were really doing things correctly, the coral would thrive.