Xenia Withering Away?

[Pennies2Cents]

I think I know what you mean by "crashing the tank" ever since it started dying everthing else started act up.. Now that its no longer in there dying everyone opened up & I did a 25% water change..I think that this is so funny, we have some zoa's but I think I may be allergic, everytime I put my hand in the tank and accidently touch them I always get dizzy and nausious. Not so funny feeling

[MKCindy]

I melted my Xenia not once, but twice. I'm a slow learner. I didn't mix my Kalkwasser very well. When I added it to the tank small particles landed on the xenias. Once the melt down started nothing I did helped, however, a few weeks later the Pom Pom grew back in a live rock crevice.

[drgnbttrfly]

I think xenia is responsible for my tank crash yesterday....

wear gloves when handling critters in your tank...even if you get water in em...it protects your skin from stingers

they have shoulder gloves...but you can always wear kitchen gloves till you can do otherwise

[Pennies2Cents]

Geez, Im sure that yours is alot better looking than mine, since we just started in November of last year.. I hope everything is alright now i your tank, Now that the xenia is all gone everyone is happy in mine.. Thank goodness, I will start doing that, cause that dizzy feeling is not a very good one..

[drgnbttrfly]

I was reading one of those library posts about the stuff we can catch...and I busted out the gloves...and I wash extra extra careful when I am done....

And to think I had been bare knucklin it since I had my first tank as a little kid...whew!

ewwwwwww

Yeah it might be like a bee sting for ya...and the more you get exposed you can actually become hypersensitive to it.

I am careful not to touch my anemones if I can help it. I babysat a sebae for someone though...and I had contact with it a couple times and ugh...I know the feeling you describe. My BTAs dont do that but I try to make an effort not to let them touch my skin at all.

[barderer]

Xenia does not like "dirty" water it likes water with a high levels of digestible nutrients in it like many other corals. You still want to keep your nitrates etc. low. Also it does seem to do fine in clean and truly dirty water