So I just brought home my first animals for my 6 month old macroalgae dominant tank; 2 slunk clowns, a bluestripe goby, and 3 corals. Two of them, a candy cane and gsp are doing pretty well, and while they're both a bit retracted still, they're clearly alive and reactive. The xenia however seems to be doing terribly. It was pulsing and alive in the store, and I drip acclimated it for a good 30-40 minutes with everything else, but it's looking really rough so far. No pulsing, droopy polyps, loosing a couple polyps and practically melting off it's frag plug. I've literally not even had it for a day yet, and it's already dying.
What the heck could be wrong with it/my tank? Parameters are good and have been stable for a while, dosing nitrates and phosphate on a regular basis, and the other corals seem just fine. I thought xenia was supposed to be this indestructible super-coral, this is honestly just depressing ar this point.
What the heck could be wrong with it/my tank? Parameters are good and have been stable for a while, dosing nitrates and phosphate on a regular basis, and the other corals seem just fine. I thought xenia was supposed to be this indestructible super-coral, this is honestly just depressing ar this point.