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Submitted by Flcracker94 on Tue, 2007-12-04 17:38.
I did a cool magic trick without know it. My Big Xenia stalk dissapeared while I was at school, and it's nowere in the tank! I think my Rabbitfish may have eaten it...That thing is a pig, I just fed them alot yesterday, and he's getting seaweed today! He's gonna end up being big enough to eat! lol I also have a question while I'm on the topic of corals. I was checking out my flowerpot (Which has been half destroyed by a bacterial infection, although I dipped it in coral dip) and on the skeleton are 2 starpolyps! My star polyps were nowere near it though, so I want to know; will this type of coralrelease eggs or something? It's kinda hard to tell if it IS a star polyp, but it also looks like small apistatia. I'll have to watch it, but it looks like a star polyp. __________________
Pfft, who ever said damsels weren't Lionfish food?
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when you find out the cause
Submitted by keinreis on Wed, 2007-12-05 16:00.when you find out the cause please share it with me... I freakin hate xenia!
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The same kinda thing
Submitted by Sean5472 on Wed, 2007-12-05 16:41.The same kinda thing happened in my tank, I had a frag of xenia from my brother that was a single stalk, It grew to about 5-6 stalks. Then about a week ago it was shriveled up, the next day detached in the sandbed melting away. I think my case was do to a temperature rise. Since we've been having cooler weather I took out the fan that blows over my sump. One day the temperature outside was a little warmer and the tank hit about 83*.
That could have been true,
Submitted by skipinlehigh on Wed, 2007-12-05 17:04.That could have been true, as xenia to my knowledge are pretty hardy, but they do not like changes at all...i've had xenia in my aquarium for a while now with no problems, considering my recent nitrate problem, I figured they would die off they seem to be doing fine, and pulsing away....
Maybe Xenia like nitrates? I
Submitted by Flcracker94 on Wed, 2007-12-05 19:56.Maybe Xenia like nitrates? I had a pulsing xenia in my 12ga that was pulsing, and it had 40ppm nitrates. Then when it went into the 90ga, with 0-0-0, it died.
My temp has been around 79-80, and all params are fine. I think it may have caught the bacterial infection that my flowerpot has. (If it is a bacterial infection) Before a brown slime covered the polyps and then the polyps were gone, now it gets covered in white and the polyps just fall off...I don't think it will live. Might as well keep the skeleton though, that could be a good place to put some zoanthids or starpolyps!
Pfft, who ever said damsels weren't Lionfish food?
I've heard Xenia likes
Submitted by Sean5472 on Wed, 2007-12-05 20:59.I've heard Xenia likes semi-dirty water like a lot of soft corals. I dose phyto about 3x a week tho so i don't think it was that, but I do have low nitrates...I've also heard flowerpot corals can be hard to keep, even for experienced reefers.
Well, could be xenia like
Submitted by skipinlehigh on Fri, 2007-12-07 17:35.Well, could be xenia like nitrates, but my nitrate problem has now been solved, and they are still pulsing away...
just a tempermental coral. although, to my knowledge it is the only coral that does anything(pulses)other than look pretty!