Need Help with Elegance

[ttimur]

I need help ;
Last week one of my powerheads slipped from the glass and caught a very small part of my elegant coral. There was prefilter on the powerhead so its not chopped. It closed that part for a few days and now started to die. The other parts are ok but I'm afraid it'll slowly die.
Is there anything I can make to cure him? I gave some shrimp chocked in vitamin.
HELP

 

[lu]

Geez TTimur, I wish I could help but I don't know anything about corals yet. I just started my tank. Someone will come by soon to help you, I'm sure...

 

[mal]

As long as it will keep feeding, it may recover. Don't mean to sound like the reaper here, but elegants are tough to bring back once they start to decline. Is there any sign of infection? Brown jelly or anything like that? Is the tissue where the ph was on it receding, or just not opened? If the tissue is receding away from the skeleton, leaving white skel, it's not looking good. My advice would be to leave it where it is, and continue to feed it. I would try to feed it every day. Eriched food as you are now. If you move it it will stress even further. Hope it goes well.

 

[ttimur]

I can see the sceleton But there is no brown jelly or any of that stuff. I'll keep feeding and we'll see. That is sad, really sad. It's one of my favorite coral. I think I'm gonna sue "Azoo" for making such poor quality suckers. They just don't hold the powerhead on the glass. <img src="graemlins//evilwhorn.gif" border="0" alt="[Evil Horn]" />

 

[keitho]

well, make sure you leave it alone. i had something similar happen to my elegance, but it was a falling coral instead. if you think it's necessary, you may want to try an iodine dip as a last resort of try to kill off any infection. i'm not so sure i agree with the statement about them being hard to bring back, though. mine looked almost dead, so i stuck it in the back of the tank for a month and totally ignored it (although i thought many times about yanking it out of the tank). it is now almost fully finished recapturing it's skeleton and little tentacles are starting to form again. i think it's going to make it (keeping my fingers crossed)...heck, the tentacles are even sticky! good luck to ya...i'm looking forward to the day when my elegance regains it's former elegance

 

[ebeckels]

i actually just got 2 elegance corals.. ( these are to replace the one that I lost last week...the store sent me 2 instead of 1...good deal!!!) anyways...Both of these are doing fine, although they just arrived this morning. I think that elegance corals are a hit or miss type coral. I've seem to have gotten lucky this time and got 2 good elegance's. I also think once they start to decline they are EXTREMELY difficult to bring back...the post above me I think is a rare and awesome case...but still rare. I love these corals, but i think they are difficult. keep feeding the coral and hopefully it will recoop soon.

 

[luke]

Get some current over the affected area. That will keep the coral from getting an infection. He will probably make it. If there really is no brown kelly or slime then he is not that bad off (yet). I would recomend against an iodine bath, they usually stress the coral more than help. You can add your iodine supplement to his tissue underwater, to dee if that helps.
Luke

 

[mal]

Luke is right. If there is no infection, then don't dip it. This will just add to the current stress of the animal. I also agree with Keitho in leaving it alone. If you do change the current, do it gently, don't make any drastic changes to the conditions it is used to. Just continue to feed it quality foods every day or as often as it will take it.
Keitho thats great yours sounds like it is on the way back. I think the greatest problem is with the possibility of infection. Oce there is infection it is awfully difficult to get rid of. You may want to check out reefcentral.com and ask their resident coral expert, Eric Borneman. Let us know how the treatment goes.

 

[ttimur]

Thanks for your help ; I feed him everyday and doesn't refuse, if he lives he's gonna be a fat elegance. I do have current on it ; not too much not too slow. And instead of dipping it in iodine I just blow the stuff around him. I dont want to take him out of the water and give a dip. This can be stressing.
I think (hope) he's gonna make it