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Based on my research this isn't whats taking place. The original corals in the tank are showing signs of stress brought on most likely by the lights being to intense. The newly introduced coral is simply reacting to the same stress as the other corals and has nothing to do with the fact that other corals are in the tank
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How bout Elegances that have been kept for years and are very healthy and then placing a "sick" Elegance and all of them showing the same symptoms and eventually they all die ?
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These corals are suffering the same effects of a coral that has bleached. The only difference is that they are not expelling their algae. I don't know why they retain their algae in these situations. This is an area for a much more qualified person to study. When these corals are exposed to light greater than that witch they came from, or excess temps, they begin to swell up and withdraw their tentacles.
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I am not aware of any other coral that shows these same symptoms when in serious stress, in every case based IME from Softies, LPS to deep water Acros and even Anemones they all bleach. Have you tested this on your Elegance corals ? Could you give us some detailed info on any experiments you have made that clearly show that an increase in temp or exposure to an increase in light levels causes these reaction on the Elegance corals ?
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This could be considered anecdotal, if it could not be reproduced over and over again in any tank with any of the deep water corals. Because of the fact that any of these deeper water corals will react in the same way under the same conditions time after time the evidence is anything but anecdotal. One only needs to test this for themselves.
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It has been reproduced by whom ? How do you know that all these Elegance corals are coming from deeper water ? Is there any scientific studies that you know of that you would like to share ?