What's wrong with this elegance coral?

[George]

Are you referring to the following 2 links in your other thread?

Originally Posted by reefwars

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-01/eb/index.php
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/132890/0

The first link I believe is where Eric Borneman published his study (RK is down now so can't view the page). The following RC thread documents his study:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=310425
I think at the second half of his study he moved the discussion to other forum. I don't have the link at this moment. I read Borneman's study years ago and I forgot the exact details, but I think he suggested that an unknown pathogen is the cause of ECS. The reason an elegance getting infested with the pathogen in the first place is due to various reasons, stress, environmental issues, etc. But the pathogen is from the seas.

The second link is just a standard iucn report. It talks about coral disease. I think they are talking about all corals in general not only elegance.