The most common issues for not being able to maintain xenias

[gasbatalla]

What would you guys say?

 

[Misled]

I really couldn't tell you. I've tried everything to get rid of them. They just keep showing up in totally different places. Want some?????

 

[RA]

Some people will differ with me, but I'd say a lack of high intensity lighting. Under mh's they tend to grow like a weed.

 

[gasbatalla]

I really couldn't tell you. I've tried everything to get rid of them. They just keep showing up in totally different places. Want some?????

haha, the total opposite happens to me they don't do well in my tank, while other softies and lps are thriving.

 

[gasbatalla]

Some people will differ with me, but I'd say a lack of high intensity lighting. Under mh's they tend to grow like a weed.

I have had many xenias that come from different tanks, some with T8's, 250MH, 400MH but same result they never do well in my tank

 

[DeepSeaBeauti]

I can grow, and keep all kinds of softies. But xenias, they just dont last ither, even under my MH.

 

[RA]

I had some on a rock where I didn't want them. I took the rock out of the tank, ran it under hot water and scrubbed it with a wire brush. Two weeks later I saw a tiny spot of where one of them was coming back.

 

[hebsway]

Salinity. I have kept them under power compacts, T-5's and now halides as long as my salinity stays 1.025-1.026 I have no troubles.

 

[NYCBOB]

they grow for me under any lighting and any flow. i have so many i constantly have to throw them away during water change. i suggest dont get them unless u dont plan to get other corals or hv patience to pull them out during water change.

 

[borderreef]

The most common issues for not being able to keep xenias? Too much light, not enough light. too much flow, not enough flow. Over skimming, under skimming. Inconsistant water params, consistant water params. My point is, I have read and experienced all of these when keeping and killing xenias. My first reef tank was a 20g long with a sea clone hob skimmer and 2 pc lights. Several different xenias took over the whole tank. I would rip them out by the handfuls and give them away or flush them. Upgraded my tank to a 45g tall with mh lighting, new skimmer and sump. Acclimated xenias to new lighting by first putting them in the tank floating upsidedown, them palcing them at the bottom of the tank with the lights on for gradually longer periods of time. Water params remained consistant with the first tank, and I added nothing different. None of the animals survived.

 

[Fretfreak13]

Mine always melt away. =( Anthelia too. I run T5's, salinity 1.024 and steady. They just plain old don't like me!

 

[mc-cro]

I was reading a thread the other day in the chemistry forum and someone stated that xenia dont like low po4.

I haven't had any xenia in my tank for a year or two, (or at least I didnt think I did)and I thought it may be possible, or coincidence that I found a patch of them growing behind a rock recently after my po4 and other parameters got out of hand due to some long term neglect. I started running GFO in a reactor and the patch melted away. Could be coincidence, or one of the many other parameters I corrected through water changes and general housekeeping.