I would have to disagree with you. I keep a tank with sps & lps corals and keep the water very clean and the xenia grows like crazy. Unless you are using gfo or vodka dosing a normal tank will have enough crap in it to grow xenia.
Can't keep Xenia or Zoas??
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I would have to disagree with you. I keep a tank with sps & lps corals and keep the water very clean and the xenia grows like crazy. Unless you are using gfo or vodka dosing a normal tank will have enough crap in it to grow xenia.
karimwassef
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I do use a GFO like reactor (aluminum instead of iron)
karimwassef
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80??? Do you ever do a water change?
Gandolfe
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change out 45 gallons every 3 weeks, no matter what I do I can't get them lower, short of tearing apart my rocks and re-aqua sculpturing. I only feed once a day too! I just bought a RO 210 and I get a full cup of skimate every 3 or 4 days! My rocks are mostly over 10 years old and the tank has been going since I switched from my 90 back in Aug 2011. I also have a 40 gallon breeder tank that is all macro and a seahorse!
3FordFamily
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I cannot either. I don't know what the issue is. My water isn't TOO clean. It's not bad, nitrates 5-20 generally. Shrug
Gandolfe
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I also feed Cyclops and rotifers cubes as well as a homemade frozen food made from 1 lb of shrimp, a bag of seafood medley from the grocery store( contains squid, octopus, mussels, shrimp, and clams, but low or no salt), I'll add in a sleeve of formula 1 or 2, emerald entrée, maybe some krill or silversides, some garlic and then I run it through the food processor until it's a paste. Then I put it in a gallon freezer bag, smooth it out, let it freeze, then cut it into small cubes to feed with. It costs me about $30 for almost 4 or 5 months of food, depending on how big I make the cubes.
I would ask in the Chemistry Forum if using aluminum instead of iron for gfo could have an effect on xenia.
karimwassef
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So... I didn't take that advice but someone in another post said that his zoas and softies were melting with alumina but not iron oxide!!
Who here, with melting softies, uses alumina media instead of GFO? Or some other potential source of aluminum?
Who here, with melting softies, uses alumina media instead of GFO? Or some other potential source of aluminum?
lostintheocean
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xenia prefers dirty water