pulsing xenia

[54seaweed]

looked great last few days ,puffed up nice and big ,
now it looks like a pile of snot any ideas
nitrite 0 ppm
nitrate 1.0 ppm
ammonia 0 ppm
ph 8.0 ppm
salinity 1.025
temp 80 deg f
it's been in my tank about a week looked great than pow

 

[subsailor07]

I recently got some blue xenia and had the same thing happen to me. But about 2 days later it opened up again and looks amazing.

 

[Holygral]

Xenia's are strange corals, you can have a tank full that are thriving, change nothing and they all melt away in 2 weeks. Wait 6 months try again and they thrive again. Lots of opinion as to why but they are all guesses. I would do nothing and if it doesn't make it, wait 6 months and try again. I have them growing in low light, high light even got a couple of small ones that are growing on the ground probe wire in the sump. Most are in pretty good flow. I also do not dose iodine for them or anything else in my tank, just water changes.