:shout: I have had this xenia in my tank for about 2 months and is pulsating and vibrant everyday. WELL, with the losses of a couple of my fish i noticed the xenia suddenly retracts, shrivles and turns purple only to open again later. Is this normal? Looks like the mermaids in the little mermaid that were under the ocutpus' spell.
Pulsating xenia question.
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I did take the fish out asap. Not sure what killed them i thought it was ick but then the clown didnt have anything on him and all of my params are fine. I just got the water tested again today and everything was good. So i am not really sure whats going on with this thing. The tanks been established for a long time though.
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Really, how so?
winkkle, instead of saying things are "fine" give us some numbers. Fine is relative. Who is testing your water? LFS with a test strip?
Jess the buttons are fine. Ph 8.3, temp 78, nitirite and nitrate 0, ammonia 0. lfs is testing but didnt use test strips. Could phosphates be doing this. i do have purigen and seagel in their. Also, maybe calcium could be off. I believe the calcium was at 450. and alkalainty was at 8
My Xenia will open and close, not the pulsing now but the actions you described, all day and night. Any slight change will effect them from lights going off to adding nutrients, to doing nothing at all. They seem just be resting and recharging their battery or something for a short spell. This closing behavior generally last less than and hour.
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Hmm. I have some elongated xenia that wasn't pulsing at the store where I purchased it (imagine that, purchasing xenia) and has never pulsed, but will grab bits of food at feeding time. I have some silver xenia from Tim's that was pulsing wildly at his store and only pulses occasionally at my house. And I have some pom pom xenia that pulses like it's going out of style. The only thing I can tell is the flow is different for the 3 guys. The elongated is in a relatively high flow area and gets blown all around, the silver is below that on the sand bed and gets bent over backwards a bit now and then, and the pom pom is in front of those next to the ricordeas and seems to be in a lower flow area. The elongated grows like a weed; when I got it it was a 1" tall stalk on a rock, now it's a 10" tall tree with a few dozen branches, so I guess it likes something.
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My Xenia did the same thing after I scapped a bunch of hair algea off the tank. I let nature run its course and the Xenia a returned with a vengence.
I hate this xenia. For three weeks it was elongated and spreading like mad. Now its a shrivled up mess and dark purple. It also looks like it has blisters too kinda weird. Eerything else is doing good. I did *** a six line the other day. Who knows.
You did WHAT with a sixline???
