Catalaphyllia Jardinei

[invincible569]

Credit: Mesocosm, 2003

Latin name: Catalaphyllia jardinei
Light: Moderate to Bright
Current: Moderate
Positioning: Best in substrate
Difficulty: Moderate

Reference: http://data.aims.gov.au/coralpages/H...0pages/109.htm

Members please post your experiences & pictures in this thread to this species.

[naka]

I never kept one over 6 months.

[gqjeff]

This is about 10 month old and about the size of a youth football...

[babiche]

Bachir

[Adam]

I find that if you want one that will live, you must buy the kind with WHITE tips.

I have one that is IDENTICAL to gqjeff's elegance with white tips. I bought it because it looked perfect. 3 months later, it is still alive and going. I have no doubt that is will live.

Although, sadly, I strongly beleive that babiche's elegance has about had it IMO. Notice the small tentacles?? They should be much longer than that, 3-4 times longer, IMO. I just dont see it looking that healthy. JMO.

[gqjeff]

My tentacles are 2-3"

[Adam]

yep so are mine...I dont think there should be variance in tentacle length regardless of where they came from on the reef...healthy ones always have huge tentacles.

[Aster73]

This is mine:

[Aster73]

Another shot:

[Adam]

how long have you had it aster 73?

[Aster73]

Is in my tank from october 2002.
By

[Adam]

Did you place its base directly on the rock structure???

[Aster73]

yes, I know it that it would be positioned on the sand, but have had cure that the polyps does not touch the rocks.

[bluereef]

Here is my elegances corals.I have four of them,2 are baby droped from mother colony and 2 big.I bought him in 1998.
IMO position on the rocks are much better then on the sand.
Aster I think you have the biggest catallaphyllia in the whole world.Amazing.

[DragonReef]

Hi Guy's. I'm new to the board and will be running ZEOvit on a system of mine shortly.
Just a quick question. I have an Elegance coral that I have had for about 18 months and it is thriving.
My question is will ZEO have any adverse affects on this coral. It's a well known fact that Elegance corals prefer a slightly richer nutrient enviroment and maybe that's why I have had success with this coral
I'm sure I'll be posting a few more questions as I get into this.
My system is leaning towards being an SPS dominated tank and details of it can be found here:
www.dragonreef.co.za