ZENIA WONT PULSE
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Topic: ZENIA WONT PULSE
Posted By: BILLYBOB
Subject: ZENIA WONT PULSE
Date Posted: October 26 2004 at 2:39pm
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WHEN I GOT IT, IT WAS PULSING LIKE CRAZY, NOW IT JUST WAVES IN THE CURANT, WHAT IS WRONG, ANY SUGGESTIONS ------------- BILLY BOB 916-5000 |
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Posted By: dmanshep
Date Posted: October 26 2004 at 2:41pm
| Golden pearls make mine pulse alot :) and seems that High Light, Just my .02 |
Posted By: Kull
Date Posted: October 26 2004 at 2:45pm
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The stronger current = less pulsating Weaker current = more pulsating also nitrite and amonia will destroy it, Just for curioity sake what type of xenia is it?
------------- "So this is what gives meaning to your life." -Unknown Daniel in Santaquin |
Posted By: jpiotrowski
Date Posted: October 26 2004 at 2:46pm
| I used my xenia as a ph meter. Whenever it stopped pulsing and went limp, I would check the ph and sure enough it would be very low. (7.8 - 8.0). Adjusting ph always seemed to make it happy:) |
Posted By: Jake Pehrson
Date Posted: October 26 2004 at 3:02pm
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Alkalinity, pH and Iodine all are factors IMO (mostly alkalinity). Lighting and water-flow have little to do with it from my experience. ------------- Jake Pehrson Murray http://coralplanet.com" rel="nofollow - coralplanet.com http://utahbeeranch.com" rel="nofollow - :) |
Posted By: Simple
Date Posted: October 26 2004 at 4:52pm
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Hello everyone,
IME, the stuff grew and pulsed like crazy without the "help" of iodine additions. Good luck, Chris ------------- Ascult� tot, dar nu crede tot. Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see. |
Posted By: Weimers
Date Posted: October 26 2004 at 5:16pm
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Mine used to droop terribly when the alkalinity got too low. Very definite, once I knew what the deal was. ------------- Renee and Damon Weimer Tankless in Hawaii |
Posted By: KeoDog
Date Posted: October 27 2004 at 12:24pm
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IME Alkalinity is the key. I never add iodine or do water changes and mine pulse like crazy. ------------- Kevin Kunz (Sandy, UT) 300g reef "A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud." Ayn Rand |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: October 27 2004 at 1:39pm
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jpiotrowski wrote:Posted By: jpiotrowski
Date Posted: October 27 2004 at 2:09pm
| Kalkwasser drip addition. |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: October 27 2004 at 5:39pm
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What's the alkalinity of the tank? ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member
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Posted By: Transam
Date Posted: October 28 2004 at 8:44pm
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I found that when I got mine all at the same time white, brown and silver xenia, I had just 4x65 watt PC and 2x 40 watt NO actinic and they did not pulse at all or just a very little. I have since added 440 watts of VHO and they all go to town so I think between alklinity and lightung that is the key in my experience.
T/A |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: October 29 2004 at 8:26am
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He has MH so it's probably not the lighting. ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member
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Posted By: faviasteve
Date Posted: October 29 2004 at 9:21pm
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I have 2 patches of silver tip xenia. One is a transplant from the other so they are genetically identical. One receives low-moderate light and the other receives moderate-high light. My alkalinity is 3.0-3.2 meq/l. The lower light xenia has much longer stalks, is more pink and pulses slowly in the day, but not much at night. The higher light xenia has shorter, lighter colored stalks with silvery polyps and is a fast pulser in the day and at night. I agree that lack of pulsing is probably due to low alkalinity Steve ------------- Steve Burton Logan, Utah |