What happened to my xenia?

[hawk82]

It did look like this, and was coming out everyday.

Now for the past week, its been looking like this...

GSP, Zoas, and finger leather all look good, just the xenia.

 

[adromero]

I had xenia growing in one of my tanks when it was newly cycled. I used the xenia from one of my other tanks. It grew and spread in the tank for about three months and then it appeared that all the xenia died. A month later, xenia appeared all over the tank and to this day I have to remove some because it interferes with the growth of other corals. The tank has been running for almost three years. I don’t know what caused the die off, but if your xenia dies off it will probably come back if your other corals are doing fine and growing. I find this coral to be very easy to care for.

 

[Modest]

That’s What Xenia Does: it takes over Your tank, thrives of dies. In Your case the latter. Reasons: iodine levels for one but There is more and nobody knows.

 

[Mikeltee]

Xenias are like the canary in the mine. They are the first to die when parameters are out of whack. Run all your tests.

 

[hawk82]

The only thing I did different was my nitrates were around 20, and Ive got them down to 10 now. I also added some carbon in the filter. Other then that everything is the same. Other corals seem fine, the xenia has been like that for over a week now.

 

[Modest]

There you have it: Xenia doesn’t respond well to Carbon. That’s the cause probably.

 

[Katrina71]

It'll bounce back.

 

[hawk82]

There you have it: Xenia doesn’t respond well to Carbon. That’s the cause probably.

Interesting, I did not know that. Ill pull the carbon and see if that helps it.

 

[alton]

Xenia loves dirty water, let the Xenia bring down your nitrates naturally.

 

[Cell]

A gift from God, perhaps.

 

[hawk82]

Oh I just remembered someting else I did along with added the carbon, I also added a marinepure block. Should I take that out too?