My Sad Sad tail, with some questions:

[Thane]

Well, mt tank has just turned 3 months old and the algae seems to be going away (grass and bubble) and the water parameters are doing well. The lights were great (11w 6500k PC + 14w 50/50 10000k PC) and then I got my first "coral", a pom-pom xzenia. Put it in my tank and it looked great! Opened up so nicly after 10 minutes in my tank and this is where my story starts. We had a small power dip and the one balast for the 50/50 died, got a new one, didn't work, 1 day later with no light, got one that worked, fitted it into my lid and it looked great, the xzenia didn't though. Started to look better and then a power failer, from 8:30am to 3:30am the following morning. Well, the water paramaters are a little higher than usual, but I think the xenia is dead. It's all limp, grey/brown and when I turned the light on, only 2-3 polyps per "plant" opened, what can I do, 'o yes, there were also funny bubbles on the stalks, not a good sign? And I found bristle worms as well, the one was about 10cm, they are white, are they cool? or must I get rid of them! PLEASE help!!! Thanks for all you guys/gals have suggested as well.

[LITTLEFISHEE]

What is your pH? I've noticed that my xenia never looked right when the pH fluctuated. Also, what do you keep you temp set at? I had a heater malfunction and the tank went up to 86, nothing but the xenia died.

 

Is it normal to have frequent power outages in South Africa?

[tylernt]

I'd recommend some serious water changes. When stressed, corals quickly pollute the tank.

 

Penn-plax makes a model B11 battery-powered airpump that comes on automatically when the power fails. US$20 of cheap life insurance. I put one on my tank so I could sleep at night.

[Thane]

My PH sit's at around 8.2 - 8.3. and the temperature is at 24 deg. And no, I think this is the second powerfailer we've had this year (the first one was less than 20 minutes). And that pump sounds awesome, but I have never seen that pump here before but I'll ask at the LFS.