Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Continued decline of Xenia

The Xenia seems to continue to go downhill. It looks gray and decrepit now. I can find out what has changed in the water to cause it to start dying like it is. I guess it might be beyond saving.

One of the mushroom polyps has been acting irritated lately, retracting itself when all of the other polyp were fully opened. I guess tonight it finally decided it had enough. While I was watching, the polyp un-attached itself from the rock and rolled off the shelf! It pinwheeled through the water and landed in the back of the tank. I picked it up with some forceps and placed it on another rock so it could re-attach itself if it wanted. So weird!

The flame scallop also decided today was a good time to relocate. It had been in a nice spot at the front of the tank where we could all see it. Now, it found a little cave at the very back of the rockscape. We have to look through a very small cavity and can only see its tentacles. Bummer! It was beautiful to look at up front, but I guess it wasn't comfortable there.

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