pumping xenia shrinking

[nsaauto]

my pumping exnia is shrinking cant find answer why nitrate 0 nitrite 0 ph a bt hgh brought it down Calcum reacter with co2 needed ajustment wated and still not openng or growing

please help

 

[HighlandReefer]

Xenia come from waters with a little higher nitrate and perhaps phosphate levels than most reef coral. So called dirty water they live in.

I noticed that my Xenia were very healthy until my nitrates dropped to zero. At that point they withered away. Perhaps elevating your nitrates at bit to 5-10 ppm will help. It is difficult to keep Xenia healthy in a sps tank, where you need very low phosphate and nitrate levels. They tend to wither away in sps tanks.

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

check your iodine, they crash if it's low too.

 

[Airwolf75]

Also too much flow on them.

 

[MichaelLitoris]

I moved some to a tank that is connected to my sump and has a Compact Fluorescent (Current USA Orbit) instead of halides like in the main tank and they started to shrink.

Same water parameters, obviously.

 

[Airwolf75]

I do the same thing and they shrink. Unless they are really close to the light, as in 2 inches from the bulb.

 

[tangdiver]

what is alk. Mine shrink and melt under low alk.....


just thoughts