I had a purple tip that seemed very healthy for about 3 months. Over the course of the 4th month, it slowly closed up, then died. No new addatives, didn't move it, no visible injury. Nothing changed, all of my other corals were happy, and it just died.
C. Jardeni (sp?) - elegans: If yours croaked, how long did
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I have a green with pink tips and green with purple tips.
The green is doing pretty nicely on bottom of my tank , pretty much directly below my 400 watt 6500k halide with vho actinics.
My purple tip was 2 1/2 weeks old and slowly opening more and more under 'filtered' lighting (filtered from an above table acro). No sign of ill health, but seemed to stop opening more. It was maybe 1/3 from full opened at it's peak time of the day to be open. So I moved it next to the green one. I dont think that move would be normally too much of a change of light (it was pretty much the 'next level up' of lighting). After only 60 mins, it showed SERIOUS decline. It was getting kinda foamy and not open, except for little very bad looking tentacles. It was getting what my other elegans had gotten before. I put it under as close to pure actinic light that I could get in the tank right after I saw this decline. It's been a little more than 24 hours since in the actinic 'shade'. It is doing much better than when it was under the 'bright' light position, but not as nice as two days ago. That's as best as I could hope given its stress yesterday. But only an hour in the full -on light and WHAMMO! Jeese!
Anyhow, years ago (more than 10 - I think I mentioned this before) elegans were harder to kill then mushrooms. But now I seem to remember NOT seeing any purple-tipped elegans. They were only the 'green' non-purple (nor blue) tipped variety. And all pics I ever see of them (from back then or now) of those that do well are of the green, non-purple/blue tipped. Maybe others have purple-tipped doing well after many months, I just havent seen a pic of one.
Anyhow, I have a green, non-purple tipped doing really well for being formerly MAJORLY damaged and now recovering.
Sum up.. my purple-tip seems REALLY senstive to my lighting conditions. And non-purple likes moderate, non-filtered light. I think filtered would be ok with that also, though, just not actinic shade.
Any comments on the above?
The green is doing pretty nicely on bottom of my tank , pretty much directly below my 400 watt 6500k halide with vho actinics.
My purple tip was 2 1/2 weeks old and slowly opening more and more under 'filtered' lighting (filtered from an above table acro). No sign of ill health, but seemed to stop opening more. It was maybe 1/3 from full opened at it's peak time of the day to be open. So I moved it next to the green one. I dont think that move would be normally too much of a change of light (it was pretty much the 'next level up' of lighting). After only 60 mins, it showed SERIOUS decline. It was getting kinda foamy and not open, except for little very bad looking tentacles. It was getting what my other elegans had gotten before. I put it under as close to pure actinic light that I could get in the tank right after I saw this decline. It's been a little more than 24 hours since in the actinic 'shade'. It is doing much better than when it was under the 'bright' light position, but not as nice as two days ago. That's as best as I could hope given its stress yesterday. But only an hour in the full -on light and WHAMMO! Jeese!
Anyhow, years ago (more than 10 - I think I mentioned this before) elegans were harder to kill then mushrooms. But now I seem to remember NOT seeing any purple-tipped elegans. They were only the 'green' non-purple (nor blue) tipped variety. And all pics I ever see of them (from back then or now) of those that do well are of the green, non-purple/blue tipped. Maybe others have purple-tipped doing well after many months, I just havent seen a pic of one.
Anyhow, I have a green, non-purple tipped doing really well for being formerly MAJORLY damaged and now recovering.
Sum up.. my purple-tip seems REALLY senstive to my lighting conditions. And non-purple likes moderate, non-filtered light. I think filtered would be ok with that also, though, just not actinic shade.
Any comments on the above?
I have a green with pink tips and green with purple tips.
The green is doing pretty nicely on bottom of my tank , pretty much directly below my 400 watt 6500k halide with vho actinics.
My purple tip was 2 1/2 weeks old and slowly opening more and more under 'filtered' lighting (filtered from an above table acro). No sign of ill health, but seemed to stop opening more. It was maybe 1/3 from full opened at it's peak time of the day to be open. So I moved it next to the green one. I dont think that move would be normally too much of a change of light (it was pretty much the 'next level up' of lighting). After only 60 mins, it showed SERIOUS decline. It was getting kinda foamy and not open, except for little very bad looking tentacles. It was getting what my other elegans had gotten before. I put it under as close to pure actinic light that I could get in the tank right after I saw this decline. It's been a little more than 24 hours since in the actinic 'shade'. It is doing much better than when it was under the 'bright' light position, but not as nice as two days ago. That's as best as I could hope given its stress yesterday. But only an hour in the full -on light and WHAMMO! Jeese!
Anyhow, years ago (more than 10 - I think I mentioned this before) elegans were harder to kill then mushrooms. But now I seem to remember NOT seeing any purple-tipped elegans. They were only the 'green' non-purple (nor blue) tipped variety. And all pics I ever see of them (from back then or now) of those that do well are of the green, non-purple/blue tipped. Maybe others have purple-tipped doing well after many months, I just havent seen a pic of one.
Anyhow, I have a green, non-purple tipped doing really well for being formerly MAJORLY damaged and now recovering.
Sum up.. my purple-tip seems REALLY senstive to my lighting conditions. And non-purple likes moderate, non-filtered light. I think filtered would be ok with that also, though, just not actinic shade.
Any comments on the above?
The green is doing pretty nicely on bottom of my tank , pretty much directly below my 400 watt 6500k halide with vho actinics.
My purple tip was 2 1/2 weeks old and slowly opening more and more under 'filtered' lighting (filtered from an above table acro). No sign of ill health, but seemed to stop opening more. It was maybe 1/3 from full opened at it's peak time of the day to be open. So I moved it next to the green one. I dont think that move would be normally too much of a change of light (it was pretty much the 'next level up' of lighting). After only 60 mins, it showed SERIOUS decline. It was getting kinda foamy and not open, except for little very bad looking tentacles. It was getting what my other elegans had gotten before. I put it under as close to pure actinic light that I could get in the tank right after I saw this decline. It's been a little more than 24 hours since in the actinic 'shade'. It is doing much better than when it was under the 'bright' light position, but not as nice as two days ago. That's as best as I could hope given its stress yesterday. But only an hour in the full -on light and WHAMMO! Jeese!
Anyhow, years ago (more than 10 - I think I mentioned this before) elegans were harder to kill then mushrooms. But now I seem to remember NOT seeing any purple-tipped elegans. They were only the 'green' non-purple (nor blue) tipped variety. And all pics I ever see of them (from back then or now) of those that do well are of the green, non-purple/blue tipped. Maybe others have purple-tipped doing well after many months, I just havent seen a pic of one.
Anyhow, I have a green, non-purple tipped doing really well for being formerly MAJORLY damaged and now recovering.
Sum up.. my purple-tip seems REALLY senstive to my lighting conditions. And non-purple likes moderate, non-filtered light. I think filtered would be ok with that also, though, just not actinic shade.
Any comments on the above?
I have found that the elegance doesnt ship very well.
I purchased my first one from Jeffs. It struggled for about a month with one polyp dying. The rest came back and was very healthy for about 6 months. (until i forgot to start the pumps back up after a cleaning)
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I tried another one from Jeff's. This struggled for about 3 weeks and died.
Thinking that shipping was my problem I purchased one from the LFS. It struggled for the first week and has been healthy since. (8 months)
These were all green with pink tips
my $.02
Dave
I purchased my first one from Jeffs. It struggled for about a month with one polyp dying. The rest came back and was very healthy for about 6 months. (until i forgot to start the pumps back up after a cleaning)
I tried another one from Jeff's. This struggled for about 3 weeks and died.
Thinking that shipping was my problem I purchased one from the LFS. It struggled for the first week and has been healthy since. (8 months)
These were all green with pink tips
my $.02
Dave
In my time as an aquarist, I have owned 4 elegances, two of which are still living. The first one I purchased was a purple tipped specimen about the size of a baseball about 6 years ago. It was indestructible. I once accidentally sucked it up with a powerhead when I was blowing off my liverock, and it came right back the next day no worse for wear. I picked up my second elegance two years after that, and noticed that this new elegance was ultra fragile. I lost both when I moved my corals back from college to my home.
I have since bought two new specimens last year. They are both still alive, and are actually doing well, but they too are very sensitive, and sometime look just awful. I have noticed that infrequent feeding helps. They eat well, but if I try and feed too much, they stay contracted for a long period of time before extending. I still try to feed them once every 3 weeks or so.
To be frank, I am a little surprised that these last two elegances have lasted as long as they have. With all the horror stories about, and my recent experience with elegances, I considered myself lucky to have kept them for 3 months. With any luck, I'll be able to support them for another year.
No secrets really...
120 gal.
400W halides
HUGE skimmer
calcium reactor
no fish at the moment however I used to have some(elegances looked worse)
I have since bought two new specimens last year. They are both still alive, and are actually doing well, but they too are very sensitive, and sometime look just awful. I have noticed that infrequent feeding helps. They eat well, but if I try and feed too much, they stay contracted for a long period of time before extending. I still try to feed them once every 3 weeks or so.
To be frank, I am a little surprised that these last two elegances have lasted as long as they have. With all the horror stories about, and my recent experience with elegances, I considered myself lucky to have kept them for 3 months. With any luck, I'll be able to support them for another year.
No secrets really...
120 gal.
400W halides
HUGE skimmer
calcium reactor
no fish at the moment however I used to have some(elegances looked worse)
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