Rotting Xenia...Please Help

[ToeJam]

Sounds like the typical meltdown type issues. Just try to frag what you can. Act quickly, because it spreads fast and they all start to rot.

Oddly I have these symptoms all the time when I move them...move a Hydor in a new direction....(stupid fish pushes the rock into new spot )

I sorta want mine to melt down on the wall...pointed a Hydor at them for a week...all they did was look shorter and like a fly on the windshield...Held on tighter!

 

[Amphiprion]

The last time I had Xenia, the whole colony went up in smoke just like this. I didn't even do anything to it and it still died. It had the stereotypical growth spurt, took over like wildfire, and then died off completely.

 

[ToeJam]

The last time I had Xenia, the whole colony went up in smoke just like this. I didn't even do anything to it and it still died. It had the stereotypical growth spurt, took over like wildfire, and then died off completely.

That's one thing so odd with Xenia.... I can't put my finger on it. Some tanks I had the xenia would just melt away..... Other tanks it would grow like crazy ...so badly I had to prune them monthly.

Current tank its odd.... The super slow current area with shade seems to be the ideal growth spot...

the one in the open but bottom pulses less but is pristine looking.
The other in the flow bombardment spot...looks like the runt of the bunch.

Then there is the ones on the wall.....spreading like a disease...getting hit by a Hydor Kor #4 and still doesn't die.

 

[Jstdv8]

ive read that tanks that have units in place to lower nitrates (particularly turf scrubbers) pull so many nitrates out that the xenia cannot survive as its one of the few coral that needs a fair amount to live on. IMO this is why most "dirty" tanks grow xenia like weeds.