Monster Elegance

[elegance coral]

Check out the Elegance in this tank.
It's a Monster! Unfortunately, it's not mine.

[Bcollins111900]

SWEET!!! sweet looking thats for sure.

[Ephraim]

Good golly that is a monster, how old is it?

[reeffish964]

Dwarfs mine.

[zeppelin]

Very nice coral.

[sunfish11]

Awsome! I would be interested in learning more about the tank this is in. Also, I am thinking about moving mine into the rocks. Just from what you have seen do they generally do better in the rocks?

Lisa

[Jeremy Blaze]

They generally do better on the sand bed. This more closely replicates their natural setting, which is always in a soft substrate.

It also lessens the chance for the delicate tissue to get damaged from a rough or sharp rock, which could then lead to infection.

[elegance coral]

Originally posted by sunfish11
Awsome! I would be interested in learning more about the tank this is in. Also, I am thinking about moving mine into the rocks. Just from what you have seen do they generally do better in the rocks?

Lisa

I don't know anything about the tank, because I found the picture on a Spanish speaking site (I think it was Spanish).
I keep all my Elegance corals on the rocks, and have been doing so for many years. The Elegance corals with meandering skeletal walls like this one live attached to solid surfaces in the wild like fringing reefs. The only real danger with placing an Elegance on the rocks is the thin layer of tissue that overlaps the skeleton. If this tissue gets pinched between the skeleton and the rocks injury could result. I have never had a problem with the polyp expanding over the rocks. Most LR has been eroded and/or covered with coraline algae and other life so there isn't many sharp edges to cause problems. I believe that light and flow are far more important than if the coral is on rocks or sand. If the corals placement is restricted to the sand bed it greatly reduces your options when trying to find the proper environment. I believe they will do fine on either surface if the light and flow are adequate.

[jman77]

Oh yea... that's some dremel material ..lol

[kramgnik]

Here is my large elegance. This pick is about 9 mo. to a year old. I'll try to get a new pic soon. Its now in a larger tank and grown even more!

[lbaskball45]

Originally posted by kramgnik
Here is my large elegance. This pick is about 9 mo. to a year old. I'll try to get a new pic soon. Its now in a larger tank and grown even more!

wowthat looks really healthy. Mine looked like that when it was healthy and around 9months. Once these guys hit the 8months mark ormore, you start to feel they are undestructable, unless you screw up the water quality. looks very nice.

[chrisstie]

Those colonies are absolutely amazing. I just took home my first elegance the other day. It came in from Australia so I am hoping it will thrive - and it looks like in a year when I set up my 125g I'll have tomake sure I set up a special area of the tank just for it seeing how large it is

[elegance coral]

Originally posted by chrisstie
Those colonies are absolutely amazing. I just took home my first elegance the other day. It came in from Australia so I am hoping it will thrive - and it looks like in a year when I set up my 125g I'll have tomake sure I set up a special area of the tank just for it seeing how large it is

Where's the pic's? Did you get it from Sea in the City?

[chrisstie]

Yes I did and no pics yet its wide open but still settling in.. and i've been cleaning the tank all weekend.. will post in here shortly

[chrisstie]

Well, I took matters into my own hands with an awful point and shoot camera. i really need to take some extra time and learn how to use hubby's SLR camera better.

Anyhow here's with a flash


Without: (can you tell I Have T5s? hehe)



Knowing this comes from Australia hopefully will mean it will do well and get as large as the one that started this thread. i find their growth pattern and "body parts" just amazing in aesthetics and function. I was really surprised how sticky its tentacles were going from the LFS to my tank too.. really felt like an anemone! Something pictures just can't tell us hehe

[N-A-S-O]

Thats an Italian tank. You can find pics of it under the blu coral method thread