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Old 12/18/2007, 10:44 AM
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To answer your question from the other thread, here is a pic of some Indo Pacific Elegance corals.


There is no way to be 100% sure of where an Elegance came from. We can get pretty darn close though. Most, but not all, Indo Elegance have cone shaped skeletons. The tentacles are short and stubby. If the coral has not bleached, it will have very, very dark zooxanthellae. The overall health of the coral will be poor when first imported into the states. The three larger Elegance corals in this pic are recovering from this problem and have been in captivity for some time. It is rare to find Indo Elegance corals this healthy.




These are shots of Aussie Elegance corals. Most of these corals are frags of much larger, meandering skeletal structured Elegance corals. The tentacles are much longer and the overall health is much better. The first photo shows what they look like shortly after the fragging process. The second photo shows their potential after they have healed and been in captivity for a while.