Hi all!

This is my first time posting so please bear with me.
I have a xenia that's been doing great. For the past two days, it's seems to have gotten very small like something's eatten it. I have a few crabs, snails, 2 clowns and a mandarin goby. Not sure what happened. If something did eat it, will it grow back?

Thanks for your help!!

I had a similar problem with my xenia, it basically melted down to nothing. I finally realized my salt level had gotten way down, 1.019. Once i gradually got it back up to 1.026, it started growing like a weed again. I would try double checking all your parameters first.

Xenia is weird. Sometimes, for reasons I can't figure, it melts away. Sometimes it'll reform, sometimes not.

Good luck.

thank you!! I'll check my levels again, but they were all normal earlier this week. Hopefully it'll grow back. Thanks again!!

Each time a xenia is upset it may do that. I have one that was doing great and then the frag fell on my duncan and it shriveled for a few days, then started to grow back but it did get much smaller and it is as if it has to grow all over again.

I would add some iodine as this really help them. I add one drop per 30 gallons each 2 weeks with water change.

Once my turbo snail walked over the pumping xenia and it shriveled to very small, it was looking melted for at least a week, then grew back.