Well I had an small issue with my tank. I did a major water change and maintenance on Sunday and while doing this the heater gauge somehow got moved upward and by the time I realized what was happening the tank was at 84 degrees. That alone wouldn't be a bad thing but when I reset the thermometer on the heater at 79 the temp in the tank dropped to 76 overnight. Well this morning I got up and half of my xenia has melted into nothing. It was looking peaked and shell shocked yesterday but I was hoping it would pull through. My question is this....as only half is gone does that mean that the remaining is at risk also? or does the small bit that is left have any chance at recovery???? any insight is helpful.......better yet anyone with spare frags they want to donate......yeah yeah yeah.......what ever
Melting Xenia
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Germanman
My fish are my babies
xenia is sooooo sencitive to changes but if part of connected stalks is dead it most likley wont make it unless u can seperate the dead flesh from the living. but if they arent connected then as long a u baby them for now they should recover.
I've heard xenia is proned to "crashing", and this may or may not be caused by sudden water parameter changes, in particular warmer temperature. Xenia actually tends to be pretty hardy. I can take a mass of it out of the impellar of my filter and it'll grow back into a nice healthy colony.
From what I've read (never expereinced this) if your xenia crashes you'll want to do several water changes on the tank to avoid polluting the water. But, leave some of the xenia in the tank and it should eventually grow back. A constant temperature will help avoid further decline.
Here's an article on it:
http://aqualinkwebforum.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/4956080522/m/8976080522/inc/-1
HTH
-Diana
From what I've read (never expereinced this) if your xenia crashes you'll want to do several water changes on the tank to avoid polluting the water. But, leave some of the xenia in the tank and it should eventually grow back. A constant temperature will help avoid further decline.
Here's an article on it:
http://aqualinkwebforum.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/4956080522/m/8976080522/inc/-1
HTH
-Diana
Gotta love Vancouver.......after all I am from Vancouver Island and have family still there......
This was a very very small red sea pom pom xenia that I have had for about 6 weeks and it was spreading nicely...... the spot that remains is less than the size of a quarter. I am running charcoal and water params are all good at present. the remainder has a couple of small polyps on it that are remaining to pulse. I don't want to try to remove it as I would have to remove those that remain
This was a very very small red sea pom pom xenia that I have had for about 6 weeks and it was spreading nicely...... the spot that remains is less than the size of a quarter. I am running charcoal and water params are all good at present. the remainder has a couple of small polyps on it that are remaining to pulse. I don't want to try to remove it as I would have to remove those that remain
They'll likely come back. Xenia is pretty finicky, it's a weed if it's happy, but even if it's not happy, it tends to be pretty resilient. If there are any chunks that look good, it will come back, just might take some time.
Dito what OG says 
It is always nice to have species specs as this can make a differance in answers. There are quite a few species of xenia and some that are classified as xenia that are still questionable. If you were talking about xenia which has a single stock such as xenia elongata or x. umbellata, Which I believe the pom pom is classified as, I would say the chances of survival are less than species such as Anthelia which are sometimes classified in the xenia family. These species are more colonial rather than single stock species.
It is always nice to have species specs as this can make a differance in answers. There are quite a few species of xenia and some that are classified as xenia that are still questionable. If you were talking about xenia which has a single stock such as xenia elongata or x. umbellata, Which I believe the pom pom is classified as, I would say the chances of survival are less than species such as Anthelia which are sometimes classified in the xenia family. These species are more colonial rather than single stock species.