elegant coral

reeflaw

reeflaw

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I have had a ten inch elegant coral for about five days. A few of the tips have come off which worries me a little, but otherwise it appears very healthy, an takes hand fed shrimp. What is the difficulty in keeping it that I have been hearing about?
 
~sc~emt~

~sc~emt~

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our tanks are to clean for them now basicly, they come from muddy bottoms and the quality of water isnt the best, due to our filtration methods and using good protein skimmers and what not make it to where this coral is hard to keep in the aquaruim. I had thought about putting one in mine but my LFS owner informed me about them. Its a beautiful coral just hard to keep
 
reeflaw

reeflaw

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Interesting. I hope I can keep it alive. It's really a showpiece. Funny my tank might not be dirty enough for it though...:notsure:
 
nm reef

nm reef

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Lots of studies have been done and lots of methods have been used...bottom line is most seldom survive long in home systems and no body really knows why.
I'd urge you to do a search for information on them via google or some other search engine...tons of info is out there and most of it indicates they have a very poor track record.:thinking:
 
reeflaw

reeflaw

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:confused:
I will do that. I assumed when it was advertised here that it would survive in my 200 with most bells and whistles. I am surprised, and will do what I can to keep it. Maybe I will post a nice pic soon showing how content it is. I am pretty sure it ate the shrimp, and I also use Cyclopeeze, and the "regular" other food.
Any feeding suggestions? Thanks.
 
reeflaw

reeflaw

Member
Well, I did some homework. BobFenner@WetWebMedia.com has a great article on this issue. More than half of these die in our reef tanks withing a couple of months due to the more sterile conditions than they are used to in muddy mucky areas, sometimes buried in substrate. I already made the mistake of placing "him" vertically between rock, rather than on his back with mouth and tenticles facing up. Also, it has to be placed out of strong water flow. So..... I fixed all these initial mistakes. I will try to feed a little fish or mussel every now and then; and hope the conditions in my tank aren't too "good" (or bad) for it.:yes:
 
reeflaw

reeflaw

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Despite best efforts, the coral died. I wrote our host and suggested that some type of warning should be placed on the sales description of it. The response was that I should have researched on my own, and that essentially it was my problem. I was a little surprised, and think that it would be better for all cocerned (the customers and the animals) that there should be more info about it on the sales summary.
Would do you think??? Should I have really known that half of these die in home reef tanks in a couple of months, and they need less than acceptable water quality?:nope:
 
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