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10/13/2016, 09:37 AM | #1 |
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Pulsating Xenias Not Opening
My pulsating Xenias aren't opening. Had the coral for about month and half. Water parameters are all in check with API. They used to open then slowly closed up. Please see pics.IMG_3342.jpgIMG_3343.jpg
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10/13/2016, 11:11 AM | #2 |
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What exactly are your parameters? Xenia can be very finicky sometimes.
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10/13/2016, 11:27 AM | #3 |
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it could be to much water flow!
try moving it to less flow
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I run a AQUACLEAR 50 with rubble rock inside and some GFO. My pump is a Jeabo pp4. I have Xenia right by the pump and some down steam away from pump low area of tank and same issue. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Think they are dying? Or dead?
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10/13/2016, 01:28 PM | #7 |
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They look dead to me
I'd chunk them and get a new one they are too cheap and available to risk your tank Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk
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Do you think there are dead? Both my Cal and Alk are in correct ranges. I have good coraline algae growth and from my LFS they test both and are in good ranges. My weekly WCs supply both is what I'm guessing. Other corals are doing good I run a AI Prime mostly the blues, UV, Violet from 11am-8pm on a lower intensity setting due to the prime being so powerful for my tank. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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10/14/2016, 10:44 PM | #10 |
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Have u always used gfo? Have you replaced it recently? I don't know if it's the same, but I used to have a tank full of Xenia until I added a big bag of chemipure to the tank. Within a couple weeks they were all gone. Maybe it stripped the water too much.
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10/20/2016, 08:42 AM | #13 |
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i have so much xenia i cant give it away. if u live in the nyc/philly area u can have as much as u want for free. message me.
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can GFO hamper Xenia?
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I know u use gfo. I was asking if u changed it recently. I noticed on my system, if I stripped the water too fast some of my softies take a hit. My Xenia actually died off. My kenyas and Nepthea also shrink down and don't open for awhile. Just something to look in to. Good luck with your Xenia problem.
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Just removed GFO it has been in the tank for about a month and was time to change it but I just removed the tea bag and see what happens. I will also perform a WC this evening. Everything else in tank is doing good thus far. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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From those pics are my Xenia dead? As of today they are the same way. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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the Xenia are the same as in the previous photos. I am now going to LFS and get a complete water test. I have also noticed some of my LPS hammers, frogspawn and torches not opening up all the way they just open a little and hang it like that all day and then shrink up at nights. Something isn't right with my parameters I think Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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11/24/2016, 11:39 PM | #21 |
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those are nice! How do you make them get like that? Mine are dead and gone. I just started back using GFO and Carbon. Not sure how mines just closed up and never opened back up and now dead.
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I think you are starving them. if you truly have 0 phosphates and 0 nitrates then they have no food.
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Got some new pulsating Xenias and now starting back using GFO and Carbon. Along with that dosing a .5 ml of Aquavitro Fuel once a day for a 10 gallon tank. So far the results are good and hope nothing happens to them knock on wood. And the standard weekly WC. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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12/21/2016, 09:41 PM | #25 |
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Check your iodide levels
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