I am aware of nephias disintegrating. This is not the case. I have carefully chosen Scleronephthya as they are easier to keep and I feed the tank with various photo and zoo plankton. James from OA has one for over a year and it is still alive. And Bev in calgary has one that is thriving.
I still have other frags and the main mother colony alive. Seahorse Fanatic has seen my frags last month. The remaing five frags and the mother colony are not on the main rock work and is surrounded by sand. The ones that were eaten??? were hanging upside in my main rock work. I would figure it has got to be something that would not travel on sand very well. But I would not disagree with you that they are hard to keep and are not for everyone. I guess no one here locally had enough skill and/or luck to keep them, except James at OA and me.
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