Glad to meet the fellow lemnalia keeper!
They were hard to keep for me, sps were easier. Please, post as much details as possible - need to figure out their requirements. Not much info on the web.
Here are mine, purple and white (by LFS ID):
both, later:
White in the high flow (30x):
Later darkens, low light, not too clean water (as a white xenia in the same tank):
Close-up for ID:
I have both since April, started at plain and simple beginner's community nano-tanks, mainly soft corals, PC +sun medium light (later one tank with low light), low-medium flow (10x-20x), HOB power filters. SSB (and BB later), small refugiums later too.Trials to feed (including Kent's Micro-Vert and Chroma-Plex) didn't helped. IO salt, tap water, SG1.026, 79F, low Ca and Mg (then), nitrates - up to 5 ppm (then), no phosphates (same).
The birdsnest, staghorn and porites did much better in the same tank.
My observations:
- both like high flow;
- purple requires high light;
- white grows even under very low light, only color darkens;
- both survive in dirty water (NO3 - up to 20-40, PO4 - up to 0.5 ppm), in well-fed non-photosynthetic corals tank, with no new growth for purple, some new growth for white one;
- the purple is more prone to stem rot, then presumably sensitive white xenia; no such problem for white one;
- Both frag easily, purple attaches in 1-2 days, white - in a weeks; frags are surviving better than main corals from ocean (same story, as with scleronephthya and chili corals);
- both are alive under inappropriate conditions, but static - no new growth (especially the purple one).
Eventually lost the purple in accidental re-aquascaping during cleaning, may be some frag survived in the rocks, as the sclero did.
As I understand, they are hardy in sps corals tank?
