Not Good

[jkjohnson]

Got home from work and when I went to feed my reef I found my pumping Xenia not looking well. The base looks purple and the pulsing flowers are closed and look white. I got a single frag about a month ago and I was starting to get worried because it had split into seven individual corals and I was thinking this stuff is growing like a weed. Now it doesn't look so good. My water perimeters are not out of line from where I normally keep them except my temp which was high 82 and when I checked my P04was around.25 ppm. My shrooms and rics look great. Any thoughts about what might be going on would be appreciated.

 

[gh0st]

In my experience, Xenia is very sensitive to rapid temp spikes, or higher stable temps.

I've even heard of people raising their temp to get rid of a extreme Xenia infestations.

Other than the, PH and Salinity fluctuation seem to be bad news as well.