Yet another dumb question (1 Viewer)

[BP]

This is open to everyone's remarks but aimed at Reefalot since I got it from him. I got some pulsing Xenia from Reefalot a while back and once I put it in my tank it stopped pulsing. I figured that it would straighten itself out so I left it alone. Needless to say it never did pulse again so I took my water to get tested yesterday and it read good except for PH, which was about 8.0. Did a 6 gallon water change ( it's a 20 gallon tank ) and added some Sea Buffer pH buffer (really old product- probably a really bad idea.) and this afternoon my open brain isn't as swollen as usual and there was some white stringy stuff around the edges. But I digress, well I unplugged my main powerhead which was a little turbulent for the xenia and it seems to be pulsing, not all but quite a few arms. My question is is it normal for the xenia not to pulse under med-high flow? I would like to have them pulse but do not want to sacrifice the star polyps or mushrooms or candycane.

For what it's worth it's a 20 gallon with a Whisper 4000 WD(hang on back similar to the other Whisper filters) and a cap 180(80gph) just above the bottom of tank, in center which provides more flow than I thought. The main powerhead is a Penguin 1140(330gph) with a homemade jet bar. 65 w of 50/50 PC and ocassionally an extra 15w of AquaSun. Suggestions are really appreciated.

Thanks, and sorry for such a long post.

Brandon ( BP )

 

[Guest]

Xenia is very weird. It does great in a tank, put of frag of it in a different(but healthy) tank and it does horribly(sp?). Every xenia that I've ever had pulsed better in lower flow areas.

 

[cparka23]

how long has it been in your tank? if awhile, i can't see how moving it would hurt. then again, i don't own any xenia.

 

[Guest]

Well basically you are right about the flow. I also got a frag or two of it from Kevin and his xenia does not necessarily enjoy moderate flow on it. The less flow on it the more it seems to pulse. I went through the same thing you are, just put it in a light flow area and it should be fine.

 

[BP]

First, thanks to everyone for their input. It's been like two days without the large powerhead and everything looks alright. There is very, very little flow around the xenia. It's like you can see the arms move because of the current once every 15 seconds. And now there is only a little ripple across the top of the water, like you were blowing across it. But on a side note, I got two peppermint shrimp from Fish World yesterday and today when I came home all of the aiptasia in the 20 gallon was gone! WOO HOO !!!