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Flow for Elegance
I just bought my first elegance yesterday and was wondering how to determine how much flow it needs? I've read a few posts saying that they prefer lower flow, but how do I determine what lower flow is? Any tips on how to judge this and how long I shoudl wait to see if the flow is to much? I'm thinking mine has too much atm.
Thanks Cody |
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The elegance is on the sandbed in my 90 gallon. The water flow is done by two tunze streams 6010s that do 1600gph each.
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You are probably right about your Elegance getting to much flow. The flow should just be strong enough to move the tentacles and not the polyp. They do best in low flow. Here are a couple of videos of my corals that show the flow I have them in.
http://www.sharkle.com/video/132056/ http://www.sharkle.com/video/137873/ |
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Mine definitely have to much flow compared to those videos. I'll move her to a corner of my tank that has considerably less flow. On a seperate somewhat related note which would be better to move from a corner, fungias or blastos? What is interesting is that my plerogyra does very well in the same flow.
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Your bubble and your elegance can survive with somewhat more flow. They will just open up much fuller with less flow, especially the elegance. The Elegance corals overall health is very closely tied to the flow it receives. The question about plate-v-blasto, I'm not sure. Maybe someone else can give their opinion. If it were me, I would move the plate.
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I moved her to a corner that has quite a bit less flow and also less light as it is slightly under a plate coral. It looked much better after the move, but I'll take pics tonight and see how she is doing when I get home.
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She is definetly not happy. I came home to find her all shriveled up without any polyp extension. I turned off my halides that had been on for two hours to see if that helps and so far after two hours she still looks the same.
Current tank parameters for my 90 gallon Temp: 81.9 Orp: 389 pH: 8.49 Flow: 2x6010 Tunzes Lights: 2x10k XM 250 MH, and 2x54 T5HO Actinics I'm thinking of moving her from my mixed reef to my 26 bow softies tank. Would that be the best move right now? The 26 gallon parameters are: Orp: I'm sure it is less as the filitration is significantly less Temp: 78 Flow: Seio 620gph Lights: 1x65 PC Actinic and 1x65 PC 10k |
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Here are the pics from last night
Here is the one as of right now |
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The combination of the temp being that high and the lights you have will most likely kill the Elegance. The amount of light they can withstand is greatly reduced as the temperature goes up. With the options you have, I would try moving it to the softy tank. Your Elegance is very sensitive in it's current condition, so you may run into problems with chemicals in the water from your soft corals, but I believe it's a chance you will have to take. Just try placing it as far from aggressive species as you can, like GSP.
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Alright I placed her in the sand of my softie tank away from other corals and in gentle flow. Should I be replacing the carbon frequently to help with the chemical warfare? The only leathers in the tank are two green sinularias. What should the plan be as far as lighting?
My other tank temp is typically not that high, but my fans just broke a few days ago and the new coralifes just aren't cutting to the old ones. However, thats another story. |
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I replaced the carbon and turned off the lights for today. I don't think I've ever struggled with a coral like this
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wow, what kind of flow do you have over the coral? alo do you have clowns in yout tank?
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Thanks, Have a nice day. Julio |
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Here's a current pic of my 90 without the elegance as she is in my softie tank now. She was in the bottom righthand corner of the tank.
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Wow. I like the torch.
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LPS are definetly my favorite type of coral
Here's pics of it with flat worms that I treated. |
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What is going on now? The temp is at 76F. Just barely turned on lights to take a pic.
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It didn't look like this until the lights came on, correct?
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No it looked like this before the lights came on. I just turned the lights on to take the pic and they are back off.
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The only time I have seen them swell up at night is after they have been severely damaged by intense lighting. I said you would know something in the next few days, unfortunately, it doesn't look good. I believe, its tissues have been ravaged by the over exposure to your lights. It will most likely deflate and come down with an infection. I have used iodine dips and dosed the tank with iodine to help fight off these infections. There may not be enough viable tissue left on this coral to save. I hate to give you bad news, but your coral is in very bad shape. Infection is the big enemy at this point and you may not be able to fight it off. Let us know how it goes. I'm sorry, and good luck.
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Aww such is life. Lets just hope luck is on our side. And to think it only took less than two hours of my MHs.
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Last night the elegance inflated a little more, but as of this morning she looked much better as she has deflated quite a bit. I'll let you know how she is doing when I get home tonight. I haven't given up on her yet...
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Updated pic
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It now starts to swell after I turn the lights on. What does that mean?
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