[charlesr1958]

"They are not given the time they need to adapt to the brighter lights of our aquariums"

Which is easily solved by any number of well known light acclimation procedures and is, yet again, nothing new and is something that should be done for all newly purchased/collected corals. I never have to do so myself simply because the corals I collect are coming from being under the sun to going into much less intensity in my tank. BUT.. those that have been shipped, have spent a good deal of time (usualy) under less than ideal lighting and need to be reacclimated to the intensity most tanks (halides) have. No big mystery there. All of this has nothing to do with the "elegance coral problem" either. This is just a problem of not acclimating a coral to its new conditions, or of having another stress event such as high temperatures.

Chuck