Is this excellence too far gone?

[fatoldsun]

To be fair it sounded a bit off... but yes, you were right. Thanks. Keep your fingers crossed - as they say: it ain't outta the woods yet

 

[fatoldsun]

Continued progress - it kind of looks like a jiffy-pop popcorn tin - if anyone remembers what they looked like...

 

[Jcurry@wesketch]

Looks promising. Are you still doing dips?

 

[fatoldsun]

I just dipped it once. It seems to be doing better so I didn't want to set it back with a dip. Maybe in a few days I'll dip it again. This morning I found it knocked over in the sand bed. Guessing a snail bulldozed it.. Looked pretty bad for an hour or two but by noon things were back to where they were yesterday.

 

[ultracorals]

depending on the elegance where it is from and how it was shipped makes a big difference.. for a long period elegance corals were very hard to keep. they pin pointed the shipping methods and have since gotten better. here is two specimens i have. one is from indonesia. long tentacle. the other from australia. short stubby tentacles. the long tentacle seems to like much more flow then the ausie variety. they both like it down low in the tank. both went through a period of not coming out and at one point i thought i would lose both. be patient give them a chance, feed them and leave them be once you seem to find a happy spot..

this indo has now been around for close to a year and is over ten inches and very healthy..

not the greatest pic but you can see the short tentacles

 

[fatoldsun]

That Indonesia is beautiful. I believe the origin of mine is Australia. The top pic looks to have the shorter tentacles. It was ok on the tank I took it from and in mine for the first few days. Also what I read about the disease suggested that they died pretty fast once they started to decline. This has now been hanging in for 6+ weeks in pretty much the same condition. I'll keep watching it and keep fingers crossed.

 

[downbeach]

I tried one once, and it seemed to be doing great. Then one day my Blue Devil's decided it was a good place to dig holes around and kept covering it with sand. I tried to clean it off with a turkey baster, but ultimately it just retracted and died.

 

[fatoldsun]

I lost a fungi plate the same way. The GSMC likes to redecorate the sand bed every 20 minutes or so.