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usmc121581
02/08/2013, 05:21 PM
I have had this elegance coral for 6 years and its never has ever done this. Usually the tentacles and the coral itself are blown up and big. The last 2 Sundays I have feed it silverside's I have never feed the coral before So I am wondering if this is what it looks like after eating.
Wills612
02/10/2013, 12:14 AM
I feed my small elegance silversides occasionally, it gets kinda puffy with short tentacles for a few days after. Hard to compare with yours being so big. BTW, I'm super jealous of your elegance.
usmc121581
02/11/2013, 06:23 AM
I feed my small elegance silversides occasionally, it gets kinda puffy with short tentacles for a few days after. Hard to compare with yours being so big. BTW, I'm super jealous of your elegance.

Well after a couple days he went back to normal, dont know why it acted weird. When I bough him in Dec 06' I was told I would only get it to last no longer then 6 months, I took a chance on it, and havent looked back since. Although I thought this past weekend he was a gonner, because I have never seen it do this. I was able to measure his base now with it not puffing up.
RA
02/11/2013, 07:54 AM
You may be giving it too big of a piece of food. I would cut the silverside's in half and try that.
Chaotic Reefer4u
02/14/2013, 03:06 PM
Nice elegance!
Ocfishguy
02/14/2013, 03:22 PM
First It looks beautiful. But If you haven't feed it in 6 years why did you decide to feed it now?
usmc121581
02/14/2013, 04:09 PM
First It looks beautiful. But If you haven't feed it in 6 years why did you decide to feed it now?

To be honest, it would never eat Mysis, krill, etc. so the past few weeks I have brought the IDE up and decided to try silversides. It actually took it, after then acted funny. It's back to normal now and looks as normal as before.
Grayhead
02/15/2013, 01:58 PM
I have slowed greatly on feeding mine. It went from just over baseball size to large cantaloupe size in a few months. I cant have any other corals near it. With mostly frags, I am concerned about how it will be in the future.

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usmc121581
02/15/2013, 07:08 PM
It's nice to see someone haven great success with these corals like me. Don't know why I just decided to feed it.
Timber77
02/21/2013, 05:00 PM
Yes they puff out after eating big chunks. Very awesome coral you have there.