When I started my tank I had a piece of pom pom xenia and regular xenia. At that point both grew like crazy and earned their "easy" status. A couple months later the reg xenia staryed having "episodes".
Random arms of the xenia would start to turn white and melt away. One day two or three arms. The next day two or three more. Over the period of a month or so the entire Colony melted away. I did not mind horribly because the regular xenia was rather large and I knew would eventually be a problem so I let it go. Plus I still had my pom pom, which at this point was up to about 10 stocks. A fine-looking colony Topping the left side of my rock work.
After another month or two The pom pom colony which I had
been fragging regularly and was doing great Started to do the same thing.One stock at a time it dwindled until it was nothing. over a couple of months. Then gone. :-(
I had a similar thing happen with my duncan. Grew from 2 to 15 heads and then slowly died. I waited a couple of months and got a new frag two heads. Which is now up to about 15. And doing well.So I decided to wait a few months and give the pom pom another try. I really like the motion of the polyps.
At first it grew good. Up to 3 stalks then a repeat. Dead in a week.:-( I decided pom pom was not for me.
At the last frag swap a friend practically told me to take a frag of his. I told him it would die. He said he didn't want it and no one bought it. So.....
I got it in the display and it immediatly started to melt. It was down to a sad little lump and as a last effort I threw it in my fuge. Well, low and behold in a few weeks it has staryed to rebound. Its never gotten better before. Thoughts?
Random arms of the xenia would start to turn white and melt away. One day two or three arms. The next day two or three more. Over the period of a month or so the entire Colony melted away. I did not mind horribly because the regular xenia was rather large and I knew would eventually be a problem so I let it go. Plus I still had my pom pom, which at this point was up to about 10 stocks. A fine-looking colony Topping the left side of my rock work.
After another month or two The pom pom colony which I had
been fragging regularly and was doing great Started to do the same thing.One stock at a time it dwindled until it was nothing. over a couple of months. Then gone. :-(
I had a similar thing happen with my duncan. Grew from 2 to 15 heads and then slowly died. I waited a couple of months and got a new frag two heads. Which is now up to about 15. And doing well.So I decided to wait a few months and give the pom pom another try. I really like the motion of the polyps.
At first it grew good. Up to 3 stalks then a repeat. Dead in a week.:-( I decided pom pom was not for me.
At the last frag swap a friend practically told me to take a frag of his. I told him it would die. He said he didn't want it and no one bought it. So.....
I got it in the display and it immediatly started to melt. It was down to a sad little lump and as a last effort I threw it in my fuge. Well, low and behold in a few weeks it has staryed to rebound. Its never gotten better before. Thoughts?