Elegance looking sick..HELP

[pmcg2513]

Bought elegance coral about two weeks ago. Placed on high rock on right side of tank with higher water flow. It was going so great and opened so much that I was afraid for its neighbors. Mouths opened so much that when I feed sun coral brine fish, I also tried to feed him. Moved to left side high, so lower water flow. (Same light) Past couple days, he is looking very sad and not opening. Water tested perfect and other corals are fine. (But what do I know..I'm new) Tank is up now 8 months and I feel doing very well) I would really appreciate some help. Don't know what other spec's you need to know.
Thanks,

 

[missycoral]

hope this will help you this is what they like,
Low to Med Lighting (Standard, VHO, compacts, Halide)
Low to medium water current
Med aggression
Recommended to moderate through advanced hobbyist.
Photosynthetic, no direct food required, Phytoplankton does accelerate growth and color. goodluck. Missy

 

[kappadoku]

Lets see...

• He was doing excellent.
• You moved him.
  Now hes not doing so good.

Maybe you should put him back where he was and move his closest (less expensive) neighbor?

 

[burnnspy]

What are the water parameters and lighting.
BurnNSpy

 

[luke]

Elegance corals mouths should not be wide open. Did he eat when you offered it to him?? I would say that he was gaping.
Luke
Ps Answer BurnNSpy's question on water parameters this should help.

 

[pmcg2513]

Originally posted by BurnNSpy:
<STRONG>What are the water parameters and lighting.
BurnNSpy</STRONG>
Had been bringing samples to LFS. Always told it was perfect. Just did testing first time for myself and was again good (I think)Anomonia=0, nitrates=0, nitrites=0, PH=8.0, cal=@400.
Can't quite say exactly about lighting. Had LFS set up tank. Because the tank is built into a wall, under staircase, he set up special. There are 4 bulbs with fan suspending on chains from under stairs. (Two person job to get into tank) 2 white florensent and 2 blue. Shame on me...Watts ?? or other peramitors???. (After reading many posts, now that I know about this wonderful site, will get info from LFS about specs.) Also have 24 hour, 2 blue bulbs over back of tank (this is new Leng Sy Eco-system with caulerpa and mud..seems so easy, think I'm doing something wrong)
Can you any scents of out this? Sorry, can't give exact spec.
Thanks for help.

 

[pmcg2513]

Originally posted by Luke:
<STRONG>Elegance corals mouths should not be wide open. Did he eat when you offered it to him?? I would say that he was gaping.
Luke
Hi Luke
Thanks. What is gaping? :0 Did answer BurnNSpy's (But not well. Don't know exact lighting spec's, H2O seems fine) When Elegance first arrived and was doing well, he did have mouths open. While trying to feed sun coral with live brine shrimp, tried to feed elegance. Don't know if he actually ate some. (I'm a real dumbie newbie. Didn't know these guys needed to be feed when I bought them. How do you know he is actually receiving food? Only thought anemones were the only creatures that had to have special feedings...DUMB)
Thanks to you guys, I am learning.
Ps Answer BurnNSpy's question on water parameters this should help.</STRONG>

 

[luke]

You don't actually need to feed the elegance, it is just a sign of good health if he does in fact take it. He should close his tentacles around the food and look sort of balloned closed while he is digesting. (I realize that this is vague). Gaping is a bacterial disease (reef aquarium vol 2 pg 442). The symptoms are a wide open mouth where you can actually see inside of the coral. The book (above) says that it can last for days or weeks before disapearing or killing the coral.
It could be that it has worsened or gotten over the infection and is dieing or recovering. The reason I would think that it is this is that elegance's mouths look almost like mushroom mouths when they are happy.
Hope this helps.
Luke