Pulsing Xenia's are dying off
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blueshoes2208 - Posts: 1077
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well then how do they survive in the wild. If they dont reproduce theyre doomed??? so if your tank doesnt have optimal breeding conditions your viewing of xenias is limited??
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saltwaterpimp - Posts: 1307
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I have found in previous tanks i had, solitare xenias will only live a year or so, My xenias that walked all the time, i never noticed die off, mabie there was to many to tell.I have witnessed one of my colonys before it died release all the polyops, where later i found a ton of new colonys . They also seem to do better with dirty water and sacrophyton, The cleaner your water the less likley they will make it.
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newbie916 - Posts: 375
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I guess my water must be too clean..haha Everything else in my tank is mulitplying like crazy. I've had to frag and sell a bunch of my zoanthids and other corals.
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blueshoes2208 - Posts: 1077
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ya my water conditions arent optimal for either i suppose. sacrophyton? i suppose thats tiny verisons of zooplankton or so?? I need a fuge bad but no room to put one, not even on the back of my tank..... nitrates are still hovering around 25-30 ppm, calcium is fine i think 510 or so, ph deplenishes easily though... i always have the problem of wanting to move my corals around because of optimal flow, light, the reach of my nem... and there for i never want to glue them in one place... this has resulted in me losing, literally, my star polyps....
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fihsboy - Posts: 1837
- Joined: Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:20 pm
HA my water must be nasty as hell. I cant get the stuff to stop growing. I started out with two polyps about 3 months ago. Now half the damn tank is xenia.
