Please help my Elegant...

[hgsports]

I have a pink tipped elegant that has a small section of tissue that seems to be rolling away from the skeleton. At the spot, there is a mucus like "stuff" coming off of it (it looks like strands of spit actually...) and there is a small white crusted patch directly on the tissue at that spot.

Ideas?


john

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[Anonymous]

I don't really have any advice for you, but mine had the same problem.

I know it is bad for the coral to pull away from it's skeleton, but mine did the same thing when I first brought it home. This is a large elegance and there was quite a bit pulling away, it had tons of mucus for a week or two and those white patches you described. I don't know what happened, but it finally got better. It's not nearly as pretty as it was when I brought it home - it lost its pretty metallic yellow and green and turned a tan color, but it is fine.

 

[hgsports]

That's exactly what I have. It's a huge Elegant and it looks as if the problem is from something growing on it's "shell" that's advancing onto the tissue.

I'm considering trying to scrub the stuff off?


John

 

[JeremyR]

Elegant just ain't what it used to be..

Good ones come in and never do that... smaller ones that do that almost always die, larger ones can survive it probably because it gives it longer to acclimate and they have more reserves..

I've seen it more in the higher colored ones FWIW. I have had better luck acclimating elegance by following the same protocol I use on most other LPS such as trachyphyllia. I put the LPS into a lower lit tank (55 with 2 PC) and feed them heavily for a period of time before moving them into a tank with either more PC or halide and they are not for sale during this acclimation period. Seems to improve survivability. During the tissue pullback/sliming phase, lugol's dipping has been useful to me as well.

 

[JeremyR]

Lugols is a strong iodine solution.. I add 4 drops per liter of saltwater dip and soak the coral in it for 5-7 minutes, then return it to the main tank. Kent would be the easiest to procure, they also sell a "coral dip" that has lugols in it among other things. It's strong stuff, don't leave the coral in there longer than a few minutes.

 

[hgsports]

What's lugol's dipping?


John

 

[hgsports]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

4 drops per liter... that's 16 per gallon. That seems like a lot. Am i doing the conversion right?


John