elegance coral question

[beeguiles]

So I brought my anemone back to the store bc I didnt like the fact that it could move and kill other corals but I loove how it looked while it was in there. Well I was searching the web and came across elegance coral. This resembles an anemone without being one! But it does pack a good punch for a sting. Everything I have read says it not too difficult to keep and likes the bottom on the tank and I need something for the bottom. Would this be a good coral to buy? It's for a 29g with soft corals, hammer and frogspawn. Does it grow fast? Is it easy to propagate?

 

[Bifferwine]

It grows slow and it is not easy to propagate. But they are not hard to keep! I have one in my 3 gallon pico. They are stunning looking and come in lots of colors.

 

[beeguiles]

Jackpot for me! Slow grower plus easy to keep equals success! Lol looks like ill be searching for the perfect elegance coral for my tank. :) if you have yours in a 3g I'm sure 29g will do :)

 

[chuck78]

@ Live Aquaria, they have that its an easy coral to take of but I wud have to disagree. I'd heard rumors about how testy & tempermental they are from expert aquarist, but I ignored them & spent $129.00 on the "more hardier" aussie elegence & guess what...the rumors are true. The polyps hardly ever fully extend & it spends most of its time as a purple/green crater. I've owned for 3 months now [so its had time to settle], i keep great water parameters coupled with ideal lighting & theres no chemical warfare in the tank. I have over $1600.00 worth of corals [over 25 different types] and that elegance is the only one that wont act right.Most of the time when it does expand, it will get mad if a fish swims past it to fast & close back up for days:frustrat:

 

[jzaso]

I agree with chuck78, hit or miss even for experianced keepers-not a reef" animal they inhabit grass flats that is the type of inviroment that they need to thrive and grow-they get large! even tho there in family euphyllia (frogspawn/hammer ect) any interaction between will prove fatal to the elegence-need to placed in the substrate away from rocks and other animals with room to expand-

 

[AdeptMrSniffles]

+1 to the two above

 

[ErinCahir]

Elegance corals are Catalaphyllia, not Euphyllia.

 

[jzaso]

+1 Erin, closely related family-species level used old taxonomic refererance-

 

[jzaso]

phyllia-catala/eu

 

[Bifferwine]

I don't know of too many people that have had difficulty with them. Perhaps you got unlucky with yours? Mine never closes up.