HELP! poss. xenia problem

[mr pink floyd]

i just bought a small rock of xenia, and it has two seperate colnies on it, when i got it home it was open and fine, now a few hours later it is all closed up, but the single tips open a little then shut, is this the pulsing thing ive been hearing about, ive done my water test, they are all fine, trust me i dont want to write them all upm, i have 65 watts of pc on my 29 gallon, they are placed in low flow, to help pulsing, is this a good thing they are doing or bad?

 

[anydarnthing]

Don't worry about them until they stay like that for days at a time, I have some in my 12gal nano-cube that I can't kill and every month I have to pull out 5-6 rocks that I put in that are now covered with xenia out. They do like moderate flow though and if they start getting darker in color and stay shriveled up then begin to worry, but until then just give them time.

 

[mr pink floyd]

ok thank you they are still bright and white

 

[ProjectSeahorse]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6698220#post6698220 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by anydarnthing
Don't worry about them until they stay like that for days at a time, I have some in my 12gal nano-cube that I can't kill and every month I have to pull out 5-6 rocks that I put in that are now covered with xenia out. They do like moderate flow though and if they start getting darker in color and stay shriveled up then begin to worry, but until then just give them time.

if you have too much can i buy off some from you? what state do you live in? My xenia colony just died and i dont really want to spend another 20-25 bucks to have them replaced...

 

[mr pink floyd]

i live in ct, and hopefully mine will grow so i haev too many of them lol