Xenia dying

[motoman]

Hello All,

I am new to the forums and this is my first post.

I have some pulsing xenia that Ive had in my tank for about 6 months and it has been thriving, yesterday I added some new live rock and now it seems like the xenia is dying, all of my other corals seem to be doing fine.

Parameters
Ammonia - undetectable
nitrates- undetectable
nitrites - undetectable
Salinity- 1.026
PH 8.1-8.2
Temp - 78

Any ideas?

 

[motoman]

they are shriveled to almost nothing now and are turning brown. Should I remove them from the tank? i dont want them to affect any of my other corals.


Any advice would be appreciated

 

[stillfocus]

Any other corals near them?

 

[motoman]

thanks for your response.

They were moved but they stayed about the same height as they originally were in the tank. They are not close to any other corals

I also came home today to find that my mandarin has passed idk whats going on, my water params are fine, the only thing that is wrong is my PH is a little low, about 7.9.... I dont want to lose the tank

 

[jonathan]

Your tank is too clean. Let your nitrates build to 5-10 and it will perk back up.

Jonathan

 

[motoman]

here are pics of the tank and the xenia

i have mushrooms, green star polyps, brain coral, encrusting montipora, acapora, and button polyps
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