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Old 03-30-2015, 07:04 PM
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Default 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 ?

Too much light?
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Old 03-31-2015, 10:22 PM
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Check magnesium levels
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Old 03-31-2015, 10:26 PM
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What's the flow like there?

IME xenia doesn't like too much flow, while toadstool enjoys it.
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Old 04-01-2015, 08:23 PM
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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?

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Old 04-01-2015, 08:43 PM
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and what light?
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Old 04-01-2015, 08:47 PM
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4 new t5 HO 54w

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Old 04-01-2015, 09:26 PM
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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.
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Old 04-01-2015, 09:50 PM
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Default 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

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Old 04-01-2015, 10:01 PM
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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.
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Old 04-02-2015, 12:10 AM
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Default 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?

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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.
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