Bad Accident! Help!

I just bought a xenia today on a plug. After I put it in my tank, it got knock over by the hermits. And to make things worse, I pressed half of the plug on a flat piece of rock when I try to pick it up. It have 3 small stalk on that plug and 2 of them are flat and deflated. Will they regrow or they are gone for good? Do I have to remove the damaged/dead xenia?

Thanks!
GKW

 

Just leave them. They are very hardy and resillient. they should be fine. Give them alot of water movement and supplement with iodine.

 

I have some xenia that are attached to a peice of LR as big as a quarter. Beleive me they get knocked around by everybody including me. Dont worry about it they will come back.. just give them a couple of hours.

Marc.

 

Sounds exactly like my own experience. They'll be fine. Mine are thriving now.

 

Coral Reefer's right. Iodine.

 

Ok, I feel better now. Thanks!

About dosing Iodine, do I add it to the water or do I have to 'target' dose? What level should Iodine be?

Thanks!

 

If i can remember correctly the level is 0.06 meq/l and you just dump it in the water.

Marc.

 

Dont worry, Xenia are very hardy when it comes to being smushed, i have had all sorta of stuff fall on them...most of the time they stick to is and then i have a new frag under a rock lol...

 

Ok, I just moved down the button polyp rock today because he was 'squating' down yesterday and saw a stalk of xenia already attached to the edge of that rock...WOW. They ARE hardy. They are pumping back up slowly, but surely. Of course, I wish I didn't smush them in the first place.

BTW, I am about to order Iodine and Calcium test kit, what else should I get?

Thanks again guys!

 

FWIW, I've never dosed iodine and I farm xenia for sale to a Local LFS. I make a lot of money each year just on this coral alone. If xenia needed iodine, why does mine grow so well and look better than anyone elses that trys to sell them to this LFS?
I also hear a lot about shrimp needing iodine. I have a lot of shrimp in my tanks. They sure don't seem to miss the dosing of iodine either.
As for test kits, I use the alkalinity kit first and also use calcium and magnesium kits as well. Instead of a pH kit, I prefer to use a pH pen as I don't trust the colour systems the kits use to determine pH.
I don't test for anything else and I don't add anything else.