pulsing xenia

[powderbluetangy]

I have had xenia for many years. I know everyone says they need a nutrient rich tank. I have them in an all sps tank. water quality is perfect. pulse like crazy under 400w halides. They multiply like crazy! I belive its all about strong lighting. try putting them as close as yu can to the lights you have.

 

[jmoney]

My just pulse randomly, they kinda died off for some reason 1 month after I put them in the tank, but they never looked anywhere near as good as they did when I bought them. The store had MH I have t5's. I found when I moved them to the top with a medium flow, they did well. Also it seems they are really sensitve to ph, usually when they stop from a random pulse everyonce in awhile to none it has always been an indicator before something went wrong in my tank

 

[PONCHDOG2000]

I recently slacked on dosing my tank with phyto/ dts and my xenia started to turn down hill. first they stopped pulsing then looked to be melting. i started dosing dts again and they are happy as can be again. pulsing and growing. (just my experience)

 

[Bloke]

It truly is amazing. My clowns even host it!

To get t to grow, other than having decent water params, Move it closer to your lights... They will not tolerate low pH so monitor that closely.

 

[walmart]

Xenia likes medium to high flow directly at them, agreed with bloke : you can always tell if your PH is low is your Xenias. Good indicator coral.

 

[walmart]

And Tarheel where are you getting your information about moving the water?