GSP and Pulsing Xenia dying?

Hi everyone, I'm new to this site and was just wondering if anyone can help me. My GSP and Pulsing Xenia seem to be some what ill. My GSP isn't opening up anymore, i waited for about 4-5 days and still nothing. My Pulsing xenia is shriveling up and stop pulsing... if anyone can help me then i would greatly appreciate it! thanks you everyone and i'll post pic asap since this is my first post

 

Xenia is a finicky coral anyways I have seen them go for yrs then all of a sudden just melt down water parameters are very critical with them as for the Green stars Just take a tooth brush and clean them off algae or something is settling on them. Many feel its normal for them to do this But its not mine never close .

 

Thanks for the super fast response Tangster! I just did what you told me to do with the GSP, hopefully he'll be alright but for my xenia... i'm crosssing my fingers...

 

hmmm, I would say check your params, and what type of flow in GPH are you looking at? did you change anything, add any type of chemicals recently or anything new?

Matty

 

+1 on {nano}reefer's comment, that will give all a better start to diagnose!

 

Thanks Dawn , I was deffinately talking from a past experiance there, my first coral was a GSP, i remember they had been doing quite well before the addition of too much alk, thus skyrocketing a few things and the ultimate death of them, but i still take it as a good lesson learned to take it slow.

Matty

 

Hi sorry, but i'm new and when people say param, what all do they include in there. i have a 29 biocube, a 14 gallon powerhead, and i bought a tunez protein skimmer that came with a surface skimmer so that itself its another powerhead. i just bought a hammerhead coral today and i soaked it in tap water (cuz the girl at the fish store told me to to kill n e harmful organism) but once i put it in my main tank it started to melt... and bugering everywhere....

 

if you put it in regular tapwater, dont expect it to live. the metals in there are harmfull/deadly to all species pretty much, do you know what RO water is? you can find it at almost any grociery store, try using that, its pretty much pure H2O

parameters, alk. SG. Calcium. all that stuff

Matty

 

also when RO water dipping, you need to make sure that the freshwater is as close to the tank water temperature as possible, some even throw a pinch of salt and mix up a very low gravity solution.

Matty