Blue Xenia Questions

[Siapin]

What is blue xenia (scientific name)?
Is it related to pulsing xenia?
How much is a stalk worth?
Where can you buy it?
How fast does it grow? Does it grow like other xenias?
Pics would be cool.

 

[GTR]

I've seen xenia with a "tinge" of blue or green and even bought some in the past that they called blue. I just got xenia with a hint of blue and not what I'd call real blue. I quit looking since I'm not sure it's out there.

SteveU

 

[sps_addict]

The name of the true blue xenias are : cespitularia
It is non-pulsing xeniid species.
The cost of a stock can get quite pricey. I've seen 1 stalk for $180.
Very rare, I believe there are a few reefers on here propigating them.
From what I hear it does not grow as fast as the rest of the xeniids.
As for pics, you can type in cespitularia in the search and to see some pics, I posted some but I currently cannot locate the images on my computer.

 

[spline9]

They are not as blue as you'd think. I believe its named this way because the sclarites (the calcerous bits inside it that give it some form) are blue. The fleshy parts, to my knowledge, are not blue.

 

[bill624]

you should ask rbaby...she has a stalk or maybe two already...she has a thread with a pic of before and after its growth...with info on her experience with the growth rate...her blue xenia looks like a blue green color

 

[XeniaMania]

I managed to get a stalk of the blue cespitularia. It's a electric blue color xeniid. Doesn't pulse at all. I'm just starting to get 3 stalks with 2 of them still being fairly small and just starting to grow polyps.

 

[wsun083]

I think I have some, but it doesn't grow from stalks like other xenia species do. The colony has separate stems across the rock, more like the anthelia species. Anyone have any input?

 

[XeniaMania]

That would be the Blue Anthelia. Here's my blue cespitularia.

 

[sps_addict]

XeniaMania, did you get that Atlantis Aquariums? I was gonna get one from the coral farmers market but they sold the one they had.

 

[XeniaMania]

They had 2 of them, 1 with 2 stalks and another with 1. I pre-ordered it from them, so the single stalk was mine. I wonder who got the 2 stalked one.