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04-04-2009, 01:15 PM
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squid
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: SW Florida
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Xenia dying...
I have a 12 gal nano that has really never had any significant problems in the last 2 years. My husband got lazy with his 175 gal, so I started up this small nano for myself.
Anyway, I just recently moved my pulsating Xenia's rock around. Basically to the same spot in terms of light and water flow but just on the other side of my tank. Since then, they went from almost being too big for my tank to shrinking to almost nothing and I am pretty sure they are on their way out.
I shifted them around (I know it isn't ideal to do this) to accommodate a new red goniporia (sp). Everything else in my tank is doing great; in fact has never looked better....
I am having a little bit of an issue keeping my pH up, but I check it every other day at least and treat accordingly.
Any thoughts or advice?
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STACY --12 gal. Nano
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04-07-2009, 12:03 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2007
Location: UK
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Pulse is the best indicator coral of drops of ALK/PH available.Failure to grow is almost always due to the ALK/PH dropping.It stops pulsing usually at ph 8.1 and wipes out at lower.
In some tanks it can be a pest as when the ALK/PH stays within it's liking it grows like weeds.
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04-07-2009, 12:08 PM
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Forever Reef
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: WV
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i bet its the gonipora...they have been known to release alot of toxins..a 12g nano should only have 1 or 2 same family-species corals
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04-07-2009, 02:53 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Like they said check your water parimeters,specialy your ALK.
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04-07-2009, 10:40 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Jacksonville ,Florida
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ChilisREasy
i bet its the gonipora...they have been known to release alot of toxins..a 12g nano should only have 1 or 2 same family-species corals
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I have to agree .
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04-07-2009, 10:54 PM
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uber-stupid
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Biloxi, MS
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PH is ussually going to swing anywhere between 7.6 at lights on to 8.4 at lights out. Every tank is going to be somewhat different. I have not had any issues keeping xenia in any conditions that weren't TOO clean (any chance you increased water quality dramatically?). Never had any issues with them and low PH. I'm not saying its not possible just not IME. If you check PH you need to take a couple reading through out the day as far apart as you can. If you don't at least aknowledge AM or PM the reading doesn't really mean anything unless it is out side the above mentioned tolerances.
I know softies don't like to be relocated at all. Xenia is no exception. I would bust out some GAC (more to help the goni from the toxins released from the xenia than anything) and let it ride a few days.
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My girlfriend says bigger is better, so I am going to build the biggest skimmer I can.
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04-08-2009, 09:22 AM
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Forever Reef
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: WV
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well the gonipora is non-photosynthetic anyway, it requires atleast a 250g to even feed it without crashing the tank so i would save the xenia's first
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04-08-2009, 09:35 AM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Jan 2007
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interesting.
Last edited by kyrie_eleison; 06-05-2009 at 07:18 PM.
Reason: meaningless logic
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04-08-2009, 11:56 PM
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uber-stupid
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Biloxi, MS
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Lol, nice post kyrie  . They really are an easy coral for the lazy reefer. I have kept them in several different systems over that lest 12 years, I kept them on systems with sumps and with out sumps, with halides, Normal Output flourecents, PCs, high flow and low flow, very dirty water and fairly clean water, DSB tanks and SSB tanks, big tanks and little tanks, low PH and high PH low calcium and high calcium, low KH and high KH, stable systems and highly fluctuating systems, ETC, ETC, ETC... (DR Suiss go, dog, go) and only when I figured out the joys of a good protien skimmer and got really clean water did they start dying in my systems.
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My girlfriend says bigger is better, so I am going to build the biggest skimmer I can.
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04-08-2009, 11:58 PM
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uber-stupid
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Biloxi, MS
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ChilisREasy
well the gonipora is non-photosynthetic anyway, it requires atleast a 250g to even feed it without crashing the tank so i would save the xenia's first
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Must be some new kind of goni I have never heard of.
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My girlfriend says bigger is better, so I am going to build the biggest skimmer I can.
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04-14-2009, 01:38 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Jan 2007
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interesting.
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04-14-2009, 10:23 PM
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uber-stupid
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Biloxi, MS
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kyrie_eleison
Are we talking about the same coral?
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Pulsing xenia AKA pom pom coral.
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My girlfriend says bigger is better, so I am going to build the biggest skimmer I can.
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04-17-2009, 02:31 AM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Jan 2007
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interesting.
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05-02-2009, 01:54 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: west virginia
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I have to agree, I have had Xenia for a couple years now. At first I could not get one to live then at last count I had 30some small colonies. Came home the other night and notice they were not pulsing, did a quike check of perimiters and all good. I have 3 left now. They just got tired of my tank I guess. The bad thing was when they started dieing my ammonia went off the charts and started killing other things.
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