blue xenia questions???

[mikekman]

workn4frags, what kind of lights are you using and how close to the lights are the cesp?

 

[Echidna09]

Thanks Mike, I think the tank is done killing things for now. I am doing a 25% water change tomorrow with instant ocean salt (instead of oceanic). Hopefully that will change whatever caused the recession and hopefully start to bring my CA and dKH back down to their proper levels. I think I'm going to sell my large cesp to a friend to make room for a Rhyzo.

 

[Philip Root]

Here is my BLUE pulsing xenia

 

[mikekman]

Phillip nice pic. What kind of lights are you using?
You mentioned pulsing........I don't think cesp pulse at all.

 

[humanremainz]

hey Phillip very nice looking Cespitularia , i have been watching the Cespitularia @ work and it does pulse, it is just a different type of movement , Xenia has a twisting pulse and the end of Cespitularia polyps sort of role in on the center , if that makes any sense. it is amazing how fast that stuff is growing ,like doubled it's size in the last 2 months .

 

[mikekman]

humanremainz, you sure it isn't the water movement in your tank causing this?

I look at mine a lot and don't see any type of pulsing behavior.

 

[Philip Root]

The first pic is Cespitularia the secound is a pulsing blue xenia.

 

[mikekman]

Phillip, what kind of lights are your cesp and pulsing blue xenia under?

Also do you have more pics of the pulsing blue xenia?

 

[humanremainz]

yeah i am sure , we turned off the pumps and it was doing something by itself. what kind of lights are you using mikekman? i have 2 x 250 hqi and 4 x 65 over my tank and i dont see any movement on my cesp at home, but the cesp. at work it's under 1000 wt and 400 wt and it looks alot nicer and is growing like a weed ....

 

[mikekman]

WOOT WOOT! Humanremainz, you are right about the pulsing type behavior on the cesp.

I stared at a few of mine and some did nothing. But I have a larger colony with more polyps and I did notice the pulsing type behavior. It does't pulse like the pom pom xenia. Its much different. I saw two different types of pulse:

1. The polyps are open and then all of a sudden they close gently. Not a tight close, then immediately open up. This happened a few times.

2. This is the one I saw the most. The polpys would close really fast and tight and twist and recede. Then untwist open really quickly. I would say in one minute, one of my colonies did it like 8 times. My larger colony did the pulsing behaviors. My smaller colonies may have done it like once every few minutes but the larger colonies polyps would do it every 10 seconds or so.

Wow, learn new things all the time. If I get to borrow a camera or buy my own (been borrowing), I will try and record it and show it to others but definitely you are correct, the cesp does pulse in its own weird way unlike the pulsing like a pom pom xenia.

Good eye!

 

[humanremainz]

 

[workn4frags]

mikeman,
mine are under 250W DE HQI Phoenix.

mine do open and close on occasion, not like reg. xenia though.

 

[Philip Root]

The Lighting is natural sun light. They are in my greenhouse.

 

[mikekman]

I think if Eric Borneman revises his coral book, he can put "individual on Reefcentral have reported a pulsing behavior from the cespitularia"



I've got mine under a stock 14k that comes with the sunpod. I'm going to get a Phoenix 14k sometime and show new pics.

 

[Philip Root]

If I have time today I will take a few more photos of the blue pulsing xenia.

 

[mikekman]

Looked at the cesps today to see if they did their pulsing thing or if I was dreaming and yep the larger colony did it again.

phillip -can't wait to see more pics of the blue pulsing xenia.

 

[humanremainz]

Hey mikekman, my Cesp. that i thought died, well i just found a couple small stalk's of it !!!!

 

[mikekman]

humanremainz, good stuff! Even a tiny bit of flesh can regrow back.

I noticed one of my cesp like last week had moved onto a piece of rock. Well I cut a piece of the flesh that had attached to the other rock. The frag was like the size of a pencil eraser so it was small! Well, that frag is growing slowly and I see a few tiny stalks.

 

[Echidna09]

Mine grows way fast. I heard people say this isn't a fast grower but I sure think it is. Maybe all my other corals are just slow growers so I look at how fast this grows and I'm amazed. I don't know if I will be able to sell my Cesp locally so I might just sell some frags on here. That or trade it to my LFS but I think I would get more here and it would be cash instead of credit. Don't really know how to ship though.

 

[mikekman]

Echidna, how come you don't want to sell locally? Not enough reefers or ?

I've heard cesp is very sensitive, so if something is off in your tank, bam it could all die on you.