elegance coral

[benjamintse]

can i put this coral on a live rock.i noe that its recoomanded to put it on a sandbed so that something...something...will ot happen.paiseh forgotton wat will happen.anyway in the lfs the coral was also put on a rock and it seems to be healthy.

[yikai]

BEST is to put on sandbed. because that is where elegance corals live in the wild. in muddy, sandy silty bottoms. almost never are they found growing on liverocks in the reef. they are mostly found in sandy laggoon and sea grass beds. placing them on liverocks may hurt their large expanded fleshy bodies when fully expanded.

you can put them on the liverock if you really have no space on the sand. but put them facing up with the skeleton base facing down. never put them in a vertical position where the "head" of the coral is facing the tank glass.

low to medium flow, medium lighting.

[Eniram]

Pls also before you get one inspect it! some elegance may look good at LFS but once back home it will slowly wither and die! There is this elegance disease that is very wide spread.

If you spot a not so healthy one in the shipment chances are the whole shipment would be infected with this disease.

Lemon can add more on this and you can google elengance disease

[LaW]

i place it on a rock, u can check mine out on my tank thread.

it open bigger than a semi basket ball.

for the damage part, i think you just need to avoid its flesh from sitting inbetween rock and its skeleton

[kuay5]

talking about elegance.. i just simply love my bulb-tip elegance

i put it a PVC pipe holder (those u normally see LFS/farms use) on top of the sand btw.

[benjamintse]

k maybe nxt time i rearranged rocks i put the coral in the sand just a ques do u just put the coral ON tne sand or do u nid to burrow it IN the sand?

[kuay5]

i would say burrow slightly so it faces upright. And since you are going to do that, make sure you don't have sand shifters in your tank. If not you'll have to elevate it slightly like me because i have gobies and pistol shrimps.. every night they will "rescape" the tank

[benjamintse]

i would say burrow slightly so it faces upright. And since you are going to do that, make sure you don't have sand shifters in your tank. If not you'll have to elevate it slightly like me because i have gobies and pistol shrimps.. every night they will "rescape" the tank

why?

[kuay5]

The part on being facing up? Or sand shifters?

facing up because elegance known not to do well when they are placed on rocks (abrasions) or horizontally. Naturally they evolved to face upwards.

And for the sand part, because sand shifters might drop sand all over your corals

[kuay5]

My elegance and how i place it