Elegance coral tissue dissolving?!

[Nitrogencat]

This is strange because every coral in my tank including torches, duncan, sps corals etc.. are thriving. My new elegance i just added looks as if the soft tissue is like dissolving and floating away in the water. It Doesnt look good.. I believe it may be an in imbalance with my alk, mag , and calcium. I’m really not sure what’s going on because every other lps coral is okay. My parameters are:

Alk 11.1 dkh: been trying to get her back down to 10
calcium 500-520 ppm: I’ve been trying to get this to come back down.
Mag: 1290ppm
Nitrates:10-20
Phosphates: <.03
Ph: 8.2
salinity: 1.026
Temperature: 79 degrees
Lighting: x2 myai saxby 75%
75 gallon tank
10 gallon sump with cheato growing.
My tank is over a year old now.


i believe it is my calcium levels messing with everything but i wanted to see what an expert has to say. Im attaching pictures of the dissolving and the rest of my tank. Would crazy high levels of calcium actually do this or am i not seeing something obvious?

 

[blaxsun]

Not an elegance expert, but my melanarus wrasse ate the tentacles off two of my elegance corals.

 

[Nitrogencat]

Not an elegance expert, but my melanarus wrasse ate the tentacles off two of my elegance corals.

Dammm!!! Sorry to hear that

 

[Sean Clark]

I have never had luck long-term with elegance corals. For some reason I cannot keep them.

 

[JGT]

Any chance you have gobies or wrasses that might be dumping sand on them? I had a bella goby that would do that and the sand against the soft tissue caused it to wear away. I moved it up higher and it fully recovered.
Don't think your calcium is that high to cause such a reaction.

 

[Nitrogencat]

Any chance you have gobies or wrasses that might be dumping sand on them? I had a bella goby that would do that and the sand against the soft tissue caused it to wear away. I moved it up higher and it fully recovered.
Don't think your calcium is that high to cause such a reaction.

I’m glad you said this because i actually moved the elegance in front of my gobies rock cave because i thought maybe i had too much light where it was before. But now this makes perfect sense my goby throws sand everywhere. And it got worse when i put it near his house lol so I’m gonna keep it tucked away under my rock work away from the goby. Hopefully no more and falls into it. Thank you thank you thank you for that tip

 

[uhgster1]

I just lost my 5 year old elegance a couple of months ago. My nitrates were above 25. It’s the only thing I could find out of whack. I think you’re looking at the same issue. I didn’t lose anything else and my euphylia were starting to deflate too.

 

[Shirak]

phosphates .03 or lower? That could be it. I only have good results with elegance when I feed them regularly with chunky food.

 

[sfin52]

phosphates .03 or lower? That could be it. I only have good results with elegance when I feed them regularly with chunky food.

My elegance sits under wear i feed. It has the opportunity to get a lot of food. Some of my best looking coral sit around the same place.

 

[JumboShrimp]

I had a good sized Elegance once that looked beautiful for about 6-8 months. Then it up and completely bailed off of it’s base. It continued to look great sitting on the sand for several weeks, then it started to shrink and it was pretty much ‘going, going, gone’ after than.

 

[Nitrogencat]

I’m glad you said this because i actually moved the elegance in front of my gobies rock cave because i thought maybe i had too much light where it was before. But now this makes perfect sense my goby throws sand everywhere. And it got worse when i put it near his house lol so I’m gonna keep it tucked away under my rock work away from the goby. Hopefully no more and falls into it. Thank you thank you thank you for that tip

Could this just be elegance coral disease? Anyone?

 

[Sean Clark]

Could this just be elegance coral disease? Anyone?

Is this a thing?

 

[Nitrogencat]

Is this a thing?

Yes it is lol. I just got all freaked out reading this https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/e...se-and-treatment-with-fresh-water-dip.654005/

 

[Sean Clark]

Yes it is lol. I just got all freaked out reading this https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/e...se-and-treatment-with-fresh-water-dip.654005/

Interesting, I only read the initial post but I will revisit the rest of it to see what others have to add. Thanks.

 

[sfin52]

Yes it is lol. I just got all freaked out reading this https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/e...se-and-treatment-with-fresh-water-dip.654005/

It doesn't sound like it.

 

[Nitrogencat]

It doesn't sound like it.

What doesn’t sound like what? lol

 

[sfin52]

What doesn’t sound like what? lol

That your elegance has the elegance coral syndrome.

 

[miyags]

Was the flesh damaged before you added it to your tank,and didn't notice? Could it be getting stung by the torch to the left? ACI Wholesalers swears by Chemi-Clean - 2 g : Red Slime Remover - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Boyd-Enterprises-CC02-Ch... as a coral dip..they used it to save many elegance corals that were in bad shape or damaged.

 

[Nitrogencat]

Was the flesh damaged before you added it to your tank,and didn't notice? Could it be getting stung by the torch to the left? ACI Wholesalers swears by Chemi-Clean - 2 g : Red Slime Remover - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Boyd-Enterprises-CC02-Ch... as a coral dip..they used it to save many elegance corals that were in bad shape or damaged.

The flesh was not damaged it was in perfect health at the coral store. And this started happening the second day i had it in my tank. It was great for the first day. I do have chemi clean that i can try for a last resort. I did a lot of research yesterday and found that they are very finicky with lighting, nutrients. I saw many people have success with indirect lighting. So I’m gonna try this:
1.Bring the coral slightly off the sand with a small rock to protect against extra infections if it is elegance syndrome.
2. Bring my nitrates down to 5-10 instead of 10-20
3. Try to get this thing as much mysis, baby brine, phytoplankton without spiking my nitrates over 10ppm.

i think this coral can be kept its just a pain in the butt lol

so here’s where my coral is now. My lights are just coming on but i have good hopes for it to open up today. It’s such a beautiful coral. I’m hoping the indirect light really helps today. Ill post later what happens with it.

 

[miyags]

I feed mine 1/4x1/4 piece of raw shrimp 2 to3 times a week..It takes the food fast it has very sticky vesicles.