My pulsing xenia frag is barely growing?

[reeferbuddy215]

I have some very nice sps frags amd huge lps colonies growing beautifully so I know my water chemistry and lighting is fine but I've have this frag for almost 2 months and it did attach 2 pieces to the rock and then broke off so now I have my original frag and 2 tiny stems growing in the rock so they are growing but so slowly which I'm ok with if that's normal cuz I know they can take over like my Kenya tree corals

 

[donnievaz]

Your water may be too clean. They like it a little dirty.

 

[reeferbuddy215]

I've heard that well I have a refugium and my phosphates are actually kinda high at .1 ppm but my sps colored up and started entrusting immediately and grow almost daily that it's noticeable. But thanks for the advice I'm waiting on some more hanna po4 reagent packets so idk what my po4 is but should be low.

 

[Tahoe61]

Boy that is a beautiful Picasso clown/or other type. If you're running charcoal or phos products cut back on the amount. Are you running a skimmer?

 

[reeferbuddy215]

Yeah in my sump with a dual refugium 40 gal total with sump

 

[reeferbuddy215]

And thanks I got a plain ocolarus and it's mate died and I have the picaso clown and a juvenile mocha clown his tips are black

 

[reeferbuddy215]

 

[DavidMc]

Couple of my softies were same way. I started feeding them Reed roids a few weeks ago and have seen a big difference so far.