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Originally Posted by cheeks69  I'm not easily offended so don't worry about that. AFA the Elegance there are many variations of this coral and mine was still small. The photo you see is full expansion of the coral although the tentacles are quite small but certainly no indication of disease , recession or decline but hey it's just my opinion based on my observation/experience. |
I agree that there is no indication of disease, recession, or decline. I said that your coral could have grown into a very healthy Elegance. The coral looked like it had gone through a rough time at one point. I don't know if this was before you got it or in the early days when you had it. I believe that the pic did show its full expansion for the state of recovery it was in. It was well out of the woods and on its way to full recovery.
The coral that I posted a pic of that looked very much like yours was burnt bad at one point. It would retract completely back into its skeleton. Its tissue recieded from the edges of its skeleton. It was touch and go for quite some time. Eventually it began to expand again, but had no noticeable tentacles. Tentacles slowly began to appear and grow. In the pic the tentacles are less than 1/2 of an inch. Now they are about 5/8 of an inch. In time they will be between 1 and 2 inches long. This will take time but he'll get there.
There are slight variations from one Elegance to another, however, there are no normal healthy Elegance corals with small polups and small tentacles like yours and mine. There are people that disagree with me on this. There are even people that place corals like these into a different species. They are wrong and this theory has grown in popularity because of online dealers passing these corals and others off as healthy corals, and useing this other species as an explanation for the corals appearance. There is but one family
Catalaphyllia and one member of that family
Jardinei. People should not buy Elegance corals under any other name.