Xenia and feather help
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Alysiak00
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well, when i came home the xenia looked a lot fuller with taller stalks (not much taller, but when the whole coral is all balled up it means something right lol). But when i looked over at the feathers, they are starting to turn a pale gray and there is only a little pinhead of green coloring left at the tops. they haven't even come close to opening in almost a week now. Its sad but i think im gonna have to give up on the feathers. Kind of a side note but feathers dont need calcium do they? i thought just sps and lps corals did?
my maroon clown hosts in his xenias. He really loves them and they are tough enough not to be killed by his loving them. Your xenia look like they are coming around. Don't get rid of the feather or anything because they sometimes come around, but if you feel better forgetting about them that's fine. It's looking better.
Alysiak00
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I was excited to see them looking better. My gf told Me some interesting news as well. She forgot to mention that the feathers were knocked over for most of the day a few days ago while I was at work. She thought maybe the lawnmower blenny messed with it. But I like how she "forgot" to mention it. I'm also thinking about getting some sps or toadstool in the near future. Any ideas?
Glad to hear it. Blennys, snails, crabs, etc all knock over stuff occasionally. My Maroon occasionally remodels his quarter of the tank. So the Feather has had a little more trauma than usual. He'll probably get over it unless someone actually bit him. I would stay away from any SPS given your lighting. Toadstools are nice, easy and pretty although they can be trying. They get limp for no reason and then look good again a couple hours later. Plus they do slough, and shutdown completely for several days at a time. That can be stressful on the human involved. If you want to expand beyond softies in that tank I'd maybe try a hammer coral next. They are pretty, tolerant of lower lighting (although mine love MH) and are a generally easy coral. You might also want to consider mushrooms or hairy mushrooms.
Alysiak00
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I actually was thinking about hammer now that u mentioned it. I'm also getting a mushroom or two. I only have a 20 bc I Dnt feel like setting up the 45. I have the dual satellite but also have a dual t5 (not on yet). I'm gonna try adding the t5 to the dual in a few weeks after everything settles.
About the acclimation? If so, the shock going from low intensity light to high can shock and kill the corals. When going up in intensity always acclimate the corals over a several week period, either moving them lower in the tank, or filtering the light. The classic way of doing this is using several layers of screen and every few days or so removing a layer of screen. This gives the corals the time to adjust. I lost a couple corals early on because I bought them from an LFS that had minimal lighting and I put them directly under MH. Now I get all corals from a store that uses mh so no adjustment is needed.
kingfisher62
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I am sorry but I never heard of a "green feather" At first I thoght you meant feather dusters but they look more like closed button polyps. Is there another name for them?
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