Dying Xenia?? Please help

nolson

nolson

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My coral looks horrible. Please advise to make a long story short, I thought my tank had cycled it apparently did not. A new addition to the tank made a huge spike so I dosed with Ammo-lock So I dont know how accurate these readings are
Ammo - 2.0
PH 7.8 -8.2 Hard time reading the chart
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0
Salinity 1.26 - 1.27
Temp 81 - 81
First pic of the coral was taken 2 days ago. 2nd was taken just now what should I do? Is it dying?

 
flower

flower

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Originally Posted by nolson
http:///forum/post/3121283
I'm aware of that, thank you.
UMM. %% ..mix some saltwater in a bucket and put the xenia in that on its rock with some light. Change it everyday until you can put it back in the tank. Match the SG
 
luvmyreef

luvmyreef

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You should definitely do a water change, and maybe add some of the bottled cycle bacteria to help convert the ammonia to nitrate. And try to keep temp in the 76-78 range, when I was curing my rock if my temp reached 80, I had dye off. It certainly wouldn't hurt. goodluck.
 
flower

flower

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Originally Posted by luvmyreef
http:///forum/post/3121287
You should definitely do a water change, and maybe add some of the bottled cycle bacteria to help convert the ammonia to nitrate. And try to keep temp in the 76-78 range, when I was curing my rock if my temp reached 80, I had dye off. It certainly wouldn't hurt. goodluck.
+1 on Temp...xenia likes cooler temps...76-78 is good for them.
 
oceansidefish

oceansidefish

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Originally Posted by luvmyreef
http:///forum/post/3121287
You should definitely do a water change, and maybe add some of the bottled cycle bacteria to help convert the ammonia to nitrate. And try to keep temp in the 76-78 range, when I was curing my rock if my temp reached 80, I had dye off. It certainly wouldn't hurt. goodluck.
IMO 80 temps will not cause die off of from rocks unless you pulled them out of a cold ocean....However, I would take a water sample and have you LFS double check to make sure it's not your test kit. Then I would say it could be the temp, but I have seen xenia thrive in warmer tanks as well so I am mixed on this one.
 
bullitr

bullitr

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Originally Posted by Flower
http:///forum/post/3121477
+1 on Temp...xenia likes cooler temps...76-78 is good for them.
i can't keep it on my main tank with control temp 81-83 and my soft coral tank temps @84 its thriving. although my main tank have 0- 2 nitrates compared to 15 on my soft coral tank.
 
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