{"id":254,"date":"2013-12-04T04:55:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T04:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=254"},"modified":"2014-07-03T08:07:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:07:44","slug":"pumping-xenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2013\/12\/04\/pumping-xenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumping Xenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_253\" style=\"width: 1162px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PumpingXenia.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PumpingXenia.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a pumping Xenia coral.\" width=\"1152\" height=\"648\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PumpingXenia.jpg 1152w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PumpingXenia-300x168.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PumpingXenia-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pumping Xenia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The pumping Xenia coral is a fascinating creature because for a long time nobody had any idea why it was constantly pumping.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNow, it seems at least some people claim they have solved this mystery, and figured out why the <a href=\"http:\/\/reefbuilders.com\/2013\/04\/30\/pulsing-xenia-mystery-solved\/\" title=\"Pulsing Xenia mystery solved\" target=\"_blank\">Xenia is pumping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Others use it as a kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=snR2QQx6IVc\" title=\"Xenia bed filter research report\" target=\"_blank\">biological filter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is an easy to keep coral that does well in most reef tanks.<br \/>\nThey do grow quickly even under less than ideal conditions so long as they get enough iodine.<br \/>\nThey make a great beginner&#8217;s coral.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they grow so much that some people would consider them to be a pest in reef tanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pumping Xenia coral is a fascinating creature because for a long time nobody had any idea why it was constantly pumping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,12,30,18,31,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}