anyone know how to care for elegance corals

[jeffwisely]

i picked up any elegance coral for a good deal but despite my research i still am not sure on how to properly care for it. can anyone shed some light on this for me.

 

[mr_X]

medium flow, medium light, and feed it meaty foods a couple times a week. is this an indo elegance, or an aussie one? the indo ones don't fare well in closed systems.

 

[Mitchell0605]

Google ASIRA - Elegance Coral.
I'd give you the link but I'm not on my home computer, and that site is blocked on my school computer.

 

[jeffwisely]

not sure if its an indo or aussie how can i tell

 

[mr_X]

well, you can look at the skeleton and see if it's been fragged. that's one way to tell. if it's been fragged, i would bet it's an aussie. it's my understanding that instead of harvesting a small elegance, they just pull a large one and it still counts for just one creature, then they chop it up. it's all about the cites. it's different in indonesia.

 

[Mitchell0605]

The Aussie ones are so beautiful. One of the ONLY aussie corals I can find. Huge ones too for steal prices.

 

[mr_X]

the indo ones are actually more colorful than the aussie ones.

 

[Mitchell0605]

Never seen an Indo so I'm ridiculously bias.

 

[jeffwisely]

ok well its about 5 to 7 in. and its kinda orange with some green its realy cool and i got it for 50$ at petco the day they got him in.

 

[melosu58]

Moving this to the SW reef aquaria forum.

 

[mr_X]

that sounds like an indo. a 7" aussie is probably 120 bucks or so. wholesale is about 50 or more.

 

[Mitchell0605]

Aussies are green on the mouth and around it. The tentacles are pale green to white and have fluro purple tips.