Description
Pulsating Xenia (Xenia sp.) is the soft coral that never sits still. Each feathery polyp opens and closes in a steady pumping rhythm, so a healthy colony looks like it is breathing.
Choose a frag to start one in your tank, or a colony for instant movement. The photo shows our xenia under blue actinic light. Color looks different under full-spectrum lighting.
Xenia is one of the easiest corals to keep and one of the fastest growing. That speed is the one thing to plan for: it spreads across rock by creeping and dropping new stalks, so give it its own rock or an island where it can grow without crowding slower corals. Conditioned in our Key West systems.
Care Guide
- Lighting: Low to medium — PAR 75–150. Acclimate gradually after shipping.
- Flow: Low to medium. Gentle, indirect flow lets the polyps pulse. Strong direct flow can make them stop.
- Placement: Its own rock or an isolated spot, lower to middle rockwork.
- Compatibility: Not aggressive, but it can overgrow nearby corals. Keep it away from rock you want to keep clear.
- Feeding: No target feeding needed. Xenia does well in tanks with steady nutrients and regular water changes.
Stable salinity, temperature and alkalinity keep the pulsing strong. A colony that stops pulsing is usually telling you something changed in the water.
Shipping & Live Arrival Guarantee
- UPS Next Day Air, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We hold the box if the weather at either end puts the animals at risk. Livestock ships in a 4-spot box: a frag takes 1 spot, a colony takes 2, and up to 4 spots ship for one shipping charge. Each box ships UPS Next Day Air for $30 in Florida or $50 elsewhere in the continental U.S. Eligible livestock orders of $299 or more ship the first box free. A $20 Box & Handling Fee applies per box, including on free-shipping orders. We do not ship to Alaska or Hawaii.
- Live arrival guaranteed. Photograph the animal in the sealed, unopened bag and send it to us within 4 hours of the delivery scan.
- Approved claims are resolved with a replacement or store credit. We do not issue cash refunds on livestock.
- Coverage is for condition on arrival and ends at acclimation.
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