优雅的珊瑚Catalaphyllia jardinei,是礁石初期最具标志性的珊瑚之一。曾经被视为防弹初学者的珊瑚,在过去十年的大部分时间里,印尼采购的优雅珊瑚几乎是不可能的。除了很少的标本外,大多数进口的标本往往看起来很棒的一到几周,之后它们会收缩并死亡,通常会屈服于棕色的果冻感染。随着澳大利亚珊瑚收藏的开放,其中一项承诺是一个良好的优雅珊瑚,一旦到达美国礁石商店,它就会变得更加严峻。After a couple of years of regarding the claim of healthy elegance corals with some healthy skepticism, we’ve recently been won over by an abundance of vigorous looking elegance corals, particularly those with small little skeletons and polyps that extend 3-4″/8-10cm from the corallite. Last summer we had the opportunity to pick up a cute nano piece of Australian elegance coral with a thumb-sized skeleton. It’s been 4-5 months now and the piece is still going strong, looking like it will soon outgrow the confines of the LED nano cube and truly deserving of the name “Elegance” coral; the long graceful tentacles and the bright purple tip reminds us daily why this species,Catalaphyllia jardineiwas once a perennial favorite. There is now an abundance of healthy small elegance corals at most major livestock retailers and since everyone is still ga-ga for any coral that is chalice, acan or scolie, the small elegance corals are mostly overlooked and selling for a very reasonable $60-80. Perhaps it may be time to lift the taboo on the elegance corals from Australia. We’d love to hear your experiences with the Elegance corals from down under, please share with us in the comments below and in the poll after the break.
Have you tried to keep an Australian elegance coral?((online surveys)