unhappy Xenia

[krautburner]

I picked up some Xenia (3 branches attached to a big snail shell)
it looked really good at the LFS,
after putting it in my tank,
it looked pretty good the first day
then it kinda shrivled up a bit,
so I moved it to the other side of the tank, and higher (closer to the lights)
when moving it, I noticed some foggy stuff coming from what looked like a cut in the biggest trunk
it's now "deflated" and looks pissed off.
will it be ok?
is there anything I can do to help it?

 

[peef]

Xenia is very hardy as a whole. The thing is it just might not like your tank. Not that your tank isn't "perfect" in readings. It is just a very picky coral. Some tanks it grows like a weed and some tanks can't get it to grow at all. I would just put it somewhere in medium light and flow and watch it to make sure it doesn't die and rot. Hope it pulls through though. Good luck

 

[krautburner]

thanks,
it's got some little pollups (green ones)
that seem to be pretty happy,
we'll see

 

[florida joe]

Check to see if its getting good flow across it. When I am working on my tank and I have the pumps off my Xenia will lean over as if it was dieing

 

[nycbob]

xenia is a weird coral. mine spread like crazy the 1st few month i had it, then all of a sudden dieoff some. the last 3 weeks, its growing like mad again.