my xenia is dead after few hour in my tank
I have 0 nitrite and 0 ammonia total and free. but i have 3 nitrate

Lucky you.

j/k (sort of)

You would have to have something seriously wrong to kill it that fast. What's salinity, temp, etc, etc. Did you toss it straight in, dip it, what?

how did you acclimate it? and what makes you think it is dead?

my temp its at 76-78 and im not acclimate it the vendor do not tell me about acclimate

All coral should be acclimated to the temp of the tank and then slowly mix your water in with the water that it came with to acclimate it to your specs as well.

'tis a sign! The end is near!

What does it look like? Whenever I transfer it from tank to tank it tends to deflate and look icky for a few hours or so...

i have just acclimate to the temp thank for the information

Highly doubt it's dead. Xenia will limp over when you first put it in. If it's not dissolved it will spring back before you know it.
Good luck

the xenia as lost is tentacle

Anything in there that might have picked at it? Within hours it shouldn't be losing any parts without something else involved. It shouldn't even dissolve that quickly.

yah it may be dead, whats the rest of your water params? what type of light do u have? where did you have the xenia?

Give it sometime before you declare it K.I.A.

I never acclimate my corals and none of them have died. I just bought coral yesterday during the blizzard and there was probably a 13 degree difference btw outside and tank temp but corals survived. I think there something in ur tank or xenia was about to die when u bought it. then u add stress and other factors= DEATH!

A picture's worth a thousand mangled words.

Waiting for the post that says he has a freshwater tank.

Seriously. Those things are pretty hardy. I'm guessing he's got a critter that attacked it or something (don't know of any that would even notice a xenia but you never know. Either that or it was just about dead to begin with. Do you have other corals in the tank?

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They are extremely hardy. I read a post where a guy had a power failure his tank went down to like 40 degrees. when it all came back on everything died etc he scraped the rock and started to recycle the tank etc and Xenia grew back. I would be surprised if its truely dead. Give it a few days I would be surprised if it is truely dead.

I can vouch for this. Last winter the power went out and my xenia tank dropped to 59 for about 12 hours. Xenia acted like nothing ever happened...

Xenia are pretty weird. I have them in my 24 and 95 gallon and they grow like weeds. I put them in my 12 gallon and they melt away. I don't dose in my 12 gallon because it's just a QT tank with LR, LS, and a dottyback. I've noticed that they do much better when a few drops of iodine is dropped in every few days. They're also really picky with Ph. It's weird, but they do well in some tanks and die off in others.

its a saltwater tank at salinity of 1025 and i have power compact

Uh, Extremely picky about Ph. Usually Xenia is a test pigeon for Ph / alk problems.

nail on head right there. As soon as my Alk went out of whack, my xenia closed up.

Now I have it back, some pices are starting to come back to normal, others will probably need to be fragged to get them where they were

Xenia sp. are one of the hardest corals to kill though, I razor'd one off of my back wall and the tiny amount of tissue remaining is growing new heads - within two weeks. Also, watch your frogspawn/torch/hammer for Ca/Alk problems, they don't extend as much when those are out of balance.

my alk is at 15

Might wanna bring that down.

xenia is dead when it melts away into nothingness...

yeah and work on that alk problem....bring it back down to 9-10 and come back to us

my water is not clear it is due to the alk

xenia are picky. i had them growing like crazy in my 10g, i stick them in a much better, well maintained, buffered system and they went to crap. i grab the same one, half dead, put it back into the 10g, it comes back in a few weeks. i updated to a better powerhead for my 10g, now they are all dying. guess they dont like flow.. but then again, i need it for the rest. "for the better of the group" i guess. anyways, try putting them in low flow.. see if that helps? i dunno after that.. cross fingers and pray to whatever god you deem appropriate.

i solve my alk problem it is due to the water
i dont use ro filter

it due to the tap water

My xenia grew from a 1" frag to a HUGE colony, ~8" wide. Had it for a year. Then, overnight, last month, 1/4th the colony just melted and completely fouled my tank. I think it had to do with a change of flow - I changed my overflow nozzle and MP10 placement. I ended up chucking the remainder in fear of a completely melt - as it happened to quickly. Needless to say, my condo smelled like rotting seafood remains for 2 days. Did a couple water changes and all was fine. Weird things, these Xenia.

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They are very sensitive to Ph and alk.

Sounds like you've got hard tap water too. Best advice would be to quit it - get RO from a LFS or grocery store with a machine, or buy distilled, or buy premixed sea water, or buy an RO/DI filter.


You could buy something to reduce the hardness of the water, but you've still got the other normal problems associated with treated tap water and even reducing the hardness may not physically take it out of the water. Just find an alternative to tap water.

my father dont want to install an ro di undersink but the tunze nano ro are my better option

i bought a new ro unit