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Originally posted by RPBel
Well, I have found the article on this site after the same occurance happened in my tank. I am wondering how long the cuttings took to build a new skeleton when the old one tore away.
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Sadly, I've since lost my 8 year old elegance as a result of a tank move so they never had a chnace to develop a new skeleon. The parent colony released from its skeleton over 2 months in several large sections. I tried to save portions of it in low flow area but any efforts failed, they eventually got blown away and I was unable to find them.
I tried using crazy glue to attach them from the bottom but they released in a few days. I tried using fishing fine to attach but the skin would spit long before any skeletal mass developed and it would get blown away. I tried keeping them in a specimen container with holes drilled to allow for water exchange but they simply rotted away within 2 weeks.
I've had portions lift off before, but nothing like this. Fully expanded healthy looking flesh seperated.
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It is one month since I made the cut. After one week they had no signs of the cut. Fully healed. Each day they seem to be getting heavier and larger.
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I noticed the same thing before I had to move the coral to the new tank. Rapid healing within days. And this wasn't the corals first move. It has survived three moves during the previous eight years.
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I think the key is having a well established large elegance. This will more likely have mouths away from the skeleton that can be cut. Place them in low current or build them some sort of protection. I took broken pieces of dead plating coral and sectioned off along the glass like a fence. Holding the two cuttings in their own space in the front corner of the tank. It has been an exciting experiment.
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Excellent, do you have any pictures? When my parent colony started to have problems I moved the daughter colonies out to other tanks with other reefers and all but one of them have since died off as well. Only a single remaining daughter colony is left of a 8 year old elegance and nearly a dozen daughters.
