Pulsating Xenia
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travis89
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Originally Posted by jgolo
No im new at this all try the iodine. Thank
You most likely don't need to use iodine, never use it unless you test for it, it can easily be overdosed and will kill it. Are your calcium and alkalinity at good levels? When my alk or cal get out of whack my xenia shrivels up like yours is.
No im new at this all try the iodine. Thank
You most likely don't need to use iodine, never use it unless you test for it, it can easily be overdosed and will kill it. Are your calcium and alkalinity at good levels? When my alk or cal get out of whack my xenia shrivels up like yours is.
jgolo
Member
Originally Posted by Travis89
You most likely don't need to use iodine, never use it unless you test for it, it can easily be overdosed and will kill it. Are your calcium and alkalinity at good levels? When my alk or cal get out of whack my xenia shrivels up like yours is.
Calcium alkalinity ok
You most likely don't need to use iodine, never use it unless you test for it, it can easily be overdosed and will kill it. Are your calcium and alkalinity at good levels? When my alk or cal get out of whack my xenia shrivels up like yours is.
Calcium alkalinity ok
1journeyman
Active Member
Originally Posted by jgolo
No im new at this all try the iodine. Thank
NO!
Good heavens, do not dose Iodine. Never dose anything without testing for it. Unless you have acres of xenia growing in your tank routine water changes are providing enough iodine for it.
What is your salinity and how are you testing for it? I've noticed my xenia start looking weak at the first sign of higher than normal salinity.
Xenia is very strange. Some tanks it grows like weeds, others it does not. Let's go over your basic water parameters first before we dose ANYTHING.
How long has your tank been up?
Lighting?
Filtration?
Ammonia?
Nitrite?
Nitrate?
Salinity?
How are you testing for each?
No im new at this all try the iodine. Thank
NO!
Good heavens, do not dose Iodine. Never dose anything without testing for it. Unless you have acres of xenia growing in your tank routine water changes are providing enough iodine for it.
What is your salinity and how are you testing for it? I've noticed my xenia start looking weak at the first sign of higher than normal salinity.
Xenia is very strange. Some tanks it grows like weeds, others it does not. Let's go over your basic water parameters first before we dose ANYTHING.
How long has your tank been up?
Lighting?
Filtration?
Ammonia?
Nitrite?
Nitrate?
Salinity?
How are you testing for each?
jgolo
Member
Originally Posted by 1journeyman
NO!
Good heavens, do not dose Iodine. Never dose anything without testing for it. Unless you have acres of xenia growing in your tank routine water changes are providing enough iodine for it.
What is your salinity and how are you testing for it? I've noticed my xenia start looking weak at the first sign of higher than normal salinity.
Xenia is very strange. Some tanks it grows like weeds, others it does not. Let's go over your basic water parameters first before we dose ANYTHING.
How long has your tank been up?
Lighting?
Filtration?
Ammonia?
Nitrite?
Nitrate?
Salinity?
How are you testing for each?
Tank 8 months
96 watt true aetinic 03 bule -96watt 10,000 k 3/4 luner blue moon
Ammonia Nitrite Nirate good
Salintity .022
Tanks for the help im new at this.
NO!
Good heavens, do not dose Iodine. Never dose anything without testing for it. Unless you have acres of xenia growing in your tank routine water changes are providing enough iodine for it.
What is your salinity and how are you testing for it? I've noticed my xenia start looking weak at the first sign of higher than normal salinity.
Xenia is very strange. Some tanks it grows like weeds, others it does not. Let's go over your basic water parameters first before we dose ANYTHING.
How long has your tank been up?
Lighting?
Filtration?
Ammonia?
Nitrite?
Nitrate?
Salinity?
How are you testing for each?
Tank 8 months
96 watt true aetinic 03 bule -96watt 10,000 k 3/4 luner blue moon
Ammonia Nitrite Nirate good
Salintity .022
Tanks for the help im new at this.
1journeyman
Active Member
What type of tester are you using for salinity? Swing arm hydrometers are notorious for not being accurate.
Let's address saliniy first and go from there. Get you salinity (accurately) slowly to 1.025-1.026.
What kind of water are you using?
Let's address saliniy first and go from there. Get you salinity (accurately) slowly to 1.025-1.026.
What kind of water are you using?
jgolo
Member
Originally Posted by 1journeyman
What type of tester are you using for salinity? Swing arm hydrometers are notorious for not being accurate.
Let's address saliniy first and go from there. Get you salinity (accurately) slowly to 1.025-1.026.
What kind of water are you using?
Hydrometer.
Well water.
What type of tester are you using for salinity? Swing arm hydrometers are notorious for not being accurate.
Let's address saliniy first and go from there. Get you salinity (accurately) slowly to 1.025-1.026.
What kind of water are you using?
Hydrometer.
Well water.
travis89
Active Member
You should probably start using RO water instead of well water because well water can have a lot of things in it that can be bad in a reef like metal, phophate,etc. Is it possible to have your LFS test your waters salinity, they will (or should at least) use a refractometer and they are quite a bit more accurate, you should probably invest in one of these as also.
1journeyman
Active Member
Originally Posted by jgolo
Hydrometer.
Well water.
both of these could be issues. Your hydrometer may not be reading salinity accurately (if it's a swing arm type) and your well water could have been slowly adding a toxin to your tank.
Hydrometer.
Well water.
both of these could be issues. Your hydrometer may not be reading salinity accurately (if it's a swing arm type) and your well water could have been slowly adding a toxin to your tank.
murph
Active Member
Drip kalk at night to maintain slightly elevated PH (8.4) and alk levels.
I can literally turn my Xenia's and cyano growth for that matter, on and off doing this.
The anecdotal evidence for this is overwhelming where my system is concerned. Over the past couple years the system has been up I have discontinued nightly kalk drips on three occasions and like clock work a week later my xenis go "puny" on me and cyano begins to grow.
Other tank inhabitants seem unaffected by these slightly elevated levels. Needles to say setting up a nightly kalk drip is a chore that no longer gets neglected.
But then again that's just me. I am sure someone will think I am completely wrong. Such is the nature of the hobby.
I can literally turn my Xenia's and cyano growth for that matter, on and off doing this.
The anecdotal evidence for this is overwhelming where my system is concerned. Over the past couple years the system has been up I have discontinued nightly kalk drips on three occasions and like clock work a week later my xenis go "puny" on me and cyano begins to grow.
Other tank inhabitants seem unaffected by these slightly elevated levels. Needles to say setting up a nightly kalk drip is a chore that no longer gets neglected.
But then again that's just me. I am sure someone will think I am completely wrong. Such is the nature of the hobby.