Xenia not openning

[BHLOZEK]

I have had my xenia in my tank for at least four hours and it has not opened my water quality is good my salinity's 1.022 and i have 5 watts of light per gallon is this natural? Or am i overeacting.

they may take a bit to adjust. Your salinity could be higher, around 1.025 they seem to like higher pH

------------------
I thought I was me, but we were wrong
email: geeflipr@internetcds.com

[horge]

Doug's right. Four hours and they'd only be filing their complaints about your water chemistry, let alone getting over them http://www.thereeftank.com/ubb/smile.gif

Also, can you note the alkalinity and roughly describe the prevalence of algal leachates?

[BHLOZEK]

They opened!!!!!!

http://www.thereeftank.com/ubb/biggrin.gif, which type did you get?


------------------
I thought I was me, but we were wrong
email: geeflipr@internetcds.com

[BHLOZEK]

I got the red sea kind according to lfs, they pump like crazy and are light pink. I want to let them get established in my sytem for a week and then attempt to propogate!

[MtnDewMan]

Do they look like this?

http://www.fitermania.com/aquarium/i...ia_1_05_01.jpg

As you can see, it is already trying to spread. It has been in my tank for 7 days.

[BHLOZEK]

Yesmine they look like that, why is this good for propogating.

[BHLOZEK]

Same here.

[MtnDewMan]

Just noting that this is a method where the Xenia will self propogate. I am waiting until my colony grows further before I propogate them myself.