post pics of your Xeniid corals

[K' Family Reef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11504022#post11504022 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Pea-brain
IME they also are horrible with temp swings. I nearly lost my 7 stalks of newly bought xenia to high temps. Then I lost the survivors to a tank crash a couple weeks later *sigh*

Dan

ouch!
too bad - hope you got things up and running again after that

how high was the temp swing?

over this last summer my system stayed in the 80-84degree mark w/ quite a few days at 86 and some at 88 - may have been lucky but didnt lose any xenia.

only recently w/ the ph/salinity
being outside of normal limits have had any problems losing xenia... and it grows rampant in my system - outgrows chaeto by far!

regards

 

[kar93]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7319674#post7319674 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mbbuna

NICE!

 

[Pea-brain]

lol I messed up. Typing w/o thinking! my temp swing went from 78-74 over the period of a day if i remember right. The xenia was making a recovery when the crash happened. Lost my GSP, the xenia, and yellow polyps. Only thing that survived was my fish (luckily) 3 snails and my palys. Still fighting the cyano.....but back on topic

Before they died

Dan

 

[dendro982]

Love the xenia forests!

About reasons for xeniids disappearance:
they had hard time during shipping, another tank crash, being sick, medicated, tasted by a fish - and always came back.
I also changed salt from IO -> Kent ->Tropic Marin -> Red Sea -> Oceanic -> Reef Crystals, not problems too, except during short use of Oceanic, could be just coincidence, could be flow changes - who knows...
Parameters were within usual limits, other corals and fish are perfectly OK. Before this I thought about xeniids as unkillable.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

bump ttt

 

[regina]

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