Help with Coral

[Metrontech]

Ok so i was away for a few days and when I came back my Xenia was double extended and my toadstool leather was shrunk and looking almost bleached

Any help?

Y is the Xenia doing so well and the one beside int ?

Too much light?

[Ginu]

Check magnesium levels

[rishu_pepper]

What's the flow like there?

IME xenia doesn't like too much flow, while toadstool enjoys it.

[Metrontech]

So its odd you say the Xenia doesn't like too much flow because it appears to be the only thing that is growing

I have put a rock beside the Toad stool and its white polyps have come out a little

But my coral just never opens up...like it was in the other tank

My Magnesium is a little low, 1000 but the rest is find

I am using a WP25 wavemaker set on the lowest speed and W1 setting

ALK 9
Calc 420
Nitrate 0
Phos 0

Any ideas?

[gobytron]

and what light?

[Metrontech]

4 new t5 HO 54w

Blue, purple plus, coral plus, blue plus

Originally Posted by gobytron

and what light?

[rishu_pepper]

Are the xenia doing their patented pulsing motion? From your picture it just seems like they are all being blown to one side and their arms aren't pulsing. JMO.

[Metrontech]

Does water movement have that much to do with it?

I have always struggled to get the right movement

I can't get it to pulse like your referring to

Maybe I'll move the wave maker around

Any suggestions?

Originally Posted by rishu_pepper

Are the xenia doing their patented pulsing motion? From your picture it just seems like they are all being blown to one side and their arms aren't pulsing. JMO.

[rishu_pepper]

Just point it or adjust the power so that the flow doesn't hit the xenia directly. Even if you turn off the flow for a bit, the xenia should start pulsing. If not then maybe some other problem.

[Metrontech]

Ok, video is always easier

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gpdt96wrt5...65920.mp4?dl=0

This is my current flow

I have since changed it so that is on the ELSE setting...which is more of a natural reef

What do you think?

Originally Posted by rishu_pepper

Just point it or adjust the power so that the flow doesn't hit the xenia directly. Even if you turn off the flow for a bit, the xenia should start pulsing. If not then maybe some other problem.