Some pics of one of my Elegance corals

elegance coral · #1 05/12/2007, 09:14 PM

This coral has 18 mouths and has bleached.

slowly starting to recover

Now its recovering its algae and very slowly getting better.

lbaskball45 · #2 05/13/2007, 12:15 PM

hope it recovers. But so far it still doesnt look too good.

elegance coral · #3 05/13/2007, 12:23 PM

Your right. It doesn't look real good right now, but at least it is headed in the right direction. When it recovers I'll post some pics.

redFishblue · #4 05/13/2007, 12:37 PM

What is the time difference between the first pic and the last?
Its great its heading in the right direction...almost never see that.

elegance coral · #5 05/13/2007, 12:49 PM

Probably about 3 months. All together I have 7 that are in different stages of recovery. All of them are getting better. Here is a pic of one that did look as bad as the first one. Now it even looks better then the pic. You can also see another one in the left top corner.

cmc5dc · #6 05/15/2007, 06:58 PM

How do you care for it? Feeding? Supplements? Any and all details would be appreciated.

Carl

elegance coral · #7 05/15/2007, 07:28 PM

There have been quite a number of threads posted lately in this forum on this subject. It might be worth your while to check them out.
I will try to answer your questions briefly here. The corals that are healthy enough to eat I feed them Krill. I also have live salt water bait shrimp that I kill and cut into pieces to feed them. I wiggle a small piece of shrimp in their tentacles to mimic a struggling shrimp and to provoke a feeding responce from the coral. The Elegance does the rest. I do this about once a week.
The only supplement I use other then Kalk as top off water is Iodine. I use this at about 1/2 of the recomended amount.
As for the rest of the details you can find them in my other post named "Elegance Coral Theory" It should be on the second or third page in this forum. If you have any more questions please feel free to ask.
Do you have an Elegance? If so is it well?

traveller7 · #8 05/15/2007, 10:56 PM

Sure looks like that specimen is improving to me, keep up whatever you are doing

elegance coral · #9 05/16/2007, 05:57 PM

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Originally posted by traveller7
Sure looks like that specimen is improving to me, keep up whatever you are doing

Thanks. It has been a long road for the poor fellow and I fear he has a long ways to go. I will post more pics when/if he improves.