uh oh... xenia trouble

[lsvagabond]

I somewhat recently added a pulsating xenia to my tank around 2 weeks ago. It started out doing fine but the pulsating slowed down a little. As of 2 days ago one of the bunches stopped pulsating last night I did an emergancy water change to try and help the matter and today when I got home it seems as though more of them have stopped pulsating the rest are doing so weakly and in general looking bad. Is there any hope? should i just get it out so it does not pollute the tank? DOes this mean some other things are horribly wrong? Most every thing else in the tank looks fine (20 long with 64 watts of PC) hair algea has also started appearing. please help!
mike

 

[menard]

Mike , post your water paramiters. We can not help U at this point give as some readings and alot of people here will chime in....Peace

 

[Douglas LEHMAN]

Hello
I take a stab at it, Xenia are real light lovers. Get the Alk up (9/10 dkh) Check the PO4 and get it as low as you can! A little Kalkwasser will do wonders, it'll bump up the ph a touch among other benifits. A water change (20%) won't hurt any and don't forget, add little activated carbon and clean that skimmer...

 

[RRafael]

are they under good flow, zenia loves flow

 

[lsvagabond]

oh my the horror... it turns out there was a horrible temp catastrophe my xenia along with a few other things paid the price. I think the worst is over but who knows. I really should have focused on getting a sump set up before adding anything to my tank, a 20 gallon leaves such little room for error especially for someone gone as often as i am. Thanks gang.

 

[glassbox-design]

xenia is very finicky...IME slow pulsing = low alk...different texture/slime= temp is too high or low iodine.

HTH

eric&flint