Ours did crappy lower in the tank. They go nuts at the top. A few pieces were our first coral in the tank in December 2010 (tank started in October 2010). They withered, lost all their little fingers, shrank up to almost nothing, then I moved them. Our nitrates usually run about 40 ppm.
March 2011
February 2012
Not sure what happened this January in our tank (that could be the month we changed bulbs), but we had a huge growth spurt of almost everything in the DT and the fuge, including the xenia (upper left in the following pics).
January 1, 2012
February 18, 2012