Crazed
07/07/2010, 06:57 PM
Hey guys,
I really need some help here. For about a month, my Xenia has been thriving and doing great. He just recently divided from one stalk into two stalks. He has been pulsing consistently.
However, for the past two days, my clownfish have really been "picking" on him. He's not yet moved entirely off of his frag plug, so I had him wedged in a rock until he moved on his own. The clownfish have knocked it onto the sand twice.
This afternoon when I came back, the second stalk was missing all of its heads. On closer inspection, I saw some of the polyps sticking to the gravel or algae around the tank. My only conclusion is that either they're ejecting from the colony out of stress, or the clownfish are eating them.
What in the world should I do? Is he going to make it? He's very tightly retracted at the moment, although his original stalk is still intact. Why are the clowns going after it so much? They just started this a couple days ago, and he's been in the tank for a month. I couldn't tell exactly what they were doing, but they were getting right into the colony and messing around.
Please let me know so I can save this beautiful coral. He was doing so incredibly awesome and now I don't even know if he's going to make it, all because of two overzealous clowns. Even as I speak, they are poking around him and harassing him even though he is fully retracted.
Could it be the clowns are trying to use the Xenia as a host and are inadvertently knocking it over?
Thanks. :)
I really need some help here. For about a month, my Xenia has been thriving and doing great. He just recently divided from one stalk into two stalks. He has been pulsing consistently.
However, for the past two days, my clownfish have really been "picking" on him. He's not yet moved entirely off of his frag plug, so I had him wedged in a rock until he moved on his own. The clownfish have knocked it onto the sand twice.
This afternoon when I came back, the second stalk was missing all of its heads. On closer inspection, I saw some of the polyps sticking to the gravel or algae around the tank. My only conclusion is that either they're ejecting from the colony out of stress, or the clownfish are eating them.
What in the world should I do? Is he going to make it? He's very tightly retracted at the moment, although his original stalk is still intact. Why are the clowns going after it so much? They just started this a couple days ago, and he's been in the tank for a month. I couldn't tell exactly what they were doing, but they were getting right into the colony and messing around.
Please let me know so I can save this beautiful coral. He was doing so incredibly awesome and now I don't even know if he's going to make it, all because of two overzealous clowns. Even as I speak, they are poking around him and harassing him even though he is fully retracted.
Could it be the clowns are trying to use the Xenia as a host and are inadvertently knocking it over?
Thanks. :)