Help with Coral
 

Ok so i was away for a few days and when I came back my Xenia was double extended and my toadstool leather was shrunk and looking almost bleached

Any help?

Y is the Xenia doing so well and the one beside int http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...937a9d6b30.jpg?

Too much light?

Check magnesium levels

What's the flow like there?

IME xenia doesn't like too much flow, while toadstool enjoys it.

More help...
 

So its odd you say the Xenia doesn't like too much flow because it appears to be the only thing that is growing

I have put a rock beside the Toad stool and its white polyps have come out a little

But my coral just never opens up...like it was in the other tank

My Magnesium is a little low, 1000 but the rest is find

I am using a WP25 wavemaker set on the lowest speed and W1 setting

ALK 9
Calc 420
Nitrate 0
Phos 0

Any ideas?

and what light?

4 t5 HO 54w
 

4 new t5 HO 54w

Blue, purple plus, coral plus, blue plus

Are the xenia doing their patented pulsing motion? From your picture it just seems like they are all being blown to one side and their arms aren't pulsing. JMO.

Water movement
 

Does water movement have that much to do with it?

I have always struggled to get the right movement

I can't get it to pulse like your referring to

Maybe I'll move the wave maker around

Any suggestions?

Just point it or adjust the power so that the flow doesn't hit the xenia directly. Even if you turn off the flow for a bit, the xenia should start pulsing. If not then maybe some other problem.

Short video
 

Ok, video is always easier

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gpdt96wrt5...65920.mp4?dl=0

This is my current flow

I have since changed it so that is on the ELSE setting...which is more of a natural reef

What do you think?