Hello!
About six weeks ago I bought an Aussie elegance coral, and while it seems to be healthy and eats everything it just won't open up very much at all. I had an elegance that died from the standard mystery disease a year ago, and I don't think my present elegance has that.
My tank is at 83 degrees. Is that too warm?
Also, I had a leather toadstool coral which I put into another tank a month ago and did 3 30% water changes, thinking that there might be some allelopathic problem, but that doesn't seem to have made any difference. Does anyone have any experience or thoughts on this? If there was an allelopathic problem, how long would it take something like an elegance to clean the poison out of its system? Assuming that would happen....
The current where I have the elegance placed is fairly low; it seems ideal for the frogspawn nearby. I've tried upping the current a bit but that doesn't seem to make any difference either. Do elegances need more current than I'm thinking?
Thanks for any thoughts.
Mark
75 gallons, 360 watts compact fluorescent,100 lbs live rock
pH 7.9-8.1
temp: 83 degrees, sometimes a bit higher
KH: 3-4 dkH
Ca: 350-400
Mg: 1200
N03: zip
Inhabitants:
2 clowns
2 cleaner shrimp
large pearl
medium frogspawn
lots of mushrooms
1 duncan
1 montipora
2 acropora
alot of zoo's
3 torches
1 hammer
1 chalice
The tank's been running for 18 months, except for the elegance everything is doing great.
