is it just me or does everyone have some sort of coral that aways dies on them?

[saltyESQ]

no matter what the water conditions are, how well fed they are or even having good lighting.

For me, I have never been able to keep a plate coral, open brain, and candy cane corals.

These 3 will always die on me no matter how well I take care of them.

 

[So Cal shaggy]

for me it was always flowerpot corals

 

[gemini aquarius(t)]

xenia

 

[noschmo]

Simple deduction Counselor, some corals are difficult to keep. Thus, it makes sense to not waste money on this livestock! I read a lot of the reef books that address which coral not to mess with!

 

[xtm]

Xenia for me too. Everything else grows and multiplies like weed

 

[wsun083]

yup, xenia gets me all the time

 

[Sk8r]

All of the above, no problem. The bane of my life is simple fox coral. I have some that's survived my hands, but it's ragged and gappy.

 

[Bebo77]

xenia is like a (weak) macro algea.. if you water is too clean it will die....

 

[SteveOhh]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7747365#post7747365 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bebo77
xenia is like a (weak) macro algea.. if you water is too clean it will die....

Probably explains why my xenia grows like weeds!!!!! :eek2:

Steve

 

[NicoleC]

I can't keep xenia or blastos. I can read the writing on the wall... no more for me!

 

[loc01]

I couldn't keep goniporas and flower pots for long.

Loc

 

[®eefer]

Damn xenia wont stay alive in my tank. I've given up on it.

 

[laverda]

I can't keep xenia either. I thought I was the only one! Too funny.

 

[Sk8r]

I had xenia elongata come in as a hitchhiker in half submerged live rock in January in the back of a pickup truck. It survived cold salt water [same source] unwashed sand, and the cycle---grew to the point I had to get it off the structural rock it was taking, and since it was going to travel on me, I pinned it to the sand with a coral branch, to which it attached by morning and is still going.

 

[Angel*Fish]

Finger/mushroom leathers :wildone:
Why? Why? Why?

 

[saltyESQ]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7747056#post7747056 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by noschmo
Simple deduction Counselor, some corals are difficult to keep. Thus, it makes sense to not waste money on this livestock! I read a lot of the reef books that address which coral not to mess with!

if life were that simple, xenia is not a hard to keep coral but many people have difficulties with it. Xenia grows like a weed in my tank and I have onlt 5ppm nitrate.

candy cane corals are suppose to be easy to keep, but they just die slowly in my tank

 

[gcarroll]

I have had trouble keeping pompom xenia, it just shrivles up and dies. I have no trouble with the elongata xenia, it seems to better tolerate the low nutrients.

 

[supernareg]

as the temp has gone up, my candy cane is dying, and so is the stupid xenia. i had 3 nice stalks... all shriveled away

 

[ManEatingGuppy]

yellow polyps for me, somethings always eating them

 

[Texsun]

Yuma for me. Look nice and healthy one day and then quickly disintegrate the next.