Cespitularia

[Quatro]

Here is an old picture of a frag I used to have that came from Maximus. It died when it was stung by an aptesia. Cespitularia are extremely sensitive in my experience, so be very careful with them....

I have a small frag from Viper, thanks again bro!, and I'll try to update the thread with another picture when I get a chance...

 

[ViPeR_930]

lol when I first saw that pic I was like, no way that tiny frag grew so big already! :lol: Thanks to you too, Harry, great trading with ya!

I've had trouble with cespitularia as well. An accidental dab of superglue killed my first piece.

 

[Klownfish]

Jdrew- How do you know/how can you tell the difference between Sansibia and Anethelia? What are the differences?

I have Cespitularia, Anthelia, along with Red Sea Pulsing Xenia.

Here's a couple of photos. Your photo is really nice. That's a beautiful colony.

Blue Anthelia:

Cespitularia:

 

[AIMFish]

Excellent specimens Klownfish :thumbsup: I currently do not own any but this picture always led me to believe that Sansibia is alot smaller in size than Xenia

The pic is from Gary Majchrzak's gallery and is labelled Sansibia and Xenia elongata.

 

[Maximus]

Incredibly, I thought my Cespitularia was dying. I pretty much gave up on it and considered it dead. I pulled most of it and left the other half just because I was too lazy to pull it out. Well, a few weeks later and it's back to normal I still cant figure out how it survived and what caused the crash to begin with. I am guessing it was due to my new skimmer that pulled out a lot of the excess nutrients.

 

[Shawnts106]

I have some sansibia in my tank. Here is a shot

We get ALOT of this stuff in at my work.. its called Blue Xenia, or Anthillia.. could it be sansibia?

These photos, taken in Menjangen National Park, Northwest Bali, show Sympodium exposed at low tide.

AHHHH THAT IS AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Klownfish]

IMO, flow is very important for the Cespitularia to thrive. I put in a penductor, which changed the flow through my tank. When I woke up to go to work, the direction and velocity had changed from the penductor. Result? High flow areas were now low-flow, and low flow became high-flow!

My Cespitularia ALMOST crashed! It was deflated, laying on the bottom of the tank! It was now in a low-to-no-flow area! I took the penductor out, put my spray bar back in. The Cespitularia was back to normal in 8 hours.

Now the Blue Anthelia has been very difficult. Every frag I give away has died on people. I don't know why. I won't sell it, because of it's habit of crashing a month or so after I frag it. This has happened in my tank, and in friends' tanks.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. It's thriving in my tank, but when a piece splits off the mother colony (on it's own!) I glue it onto a frag plug, then in a month or so... it's dead. If I leave it alone, it's fine, and I have another colony in my tank. Go figure!

If anyone knows what might be happening here, please post away. I could use some help.

 

[yeh1705]

Hmm, this seems to be a good thread for this topic, anyone have any idea what's labeled as powder blue xenias in my gallery? They have a stalk, and the color is similar to my blue cespitularia.

 

[ViPeR_930]

yeh, looks like Xenia umbellata.

 

[yeh1705]

??? I thought Umbellatas are the Red Sea xenias. Plus these guys don't really pulse, I've seen the polyps move, but not pulse regularly like a xenia would.

 

[ViPeR_930]

My umbellatas don't pulse as they used to. It's not uncommon for xenia not to pulse in some times.
I suppose I could be wrong, but it looks exactly like my umbellata.

 

[yeh1705]

And your umbellata's powder blue? I happen to have Red Sea xenias as well. Would you happen to have images of your Umbellata?

 

[ViPeR_930]

The lights are off now, but I can get a pic tomorrow.
No mine isn't powder blue. I do not think yours in question is cespitularia, if that's what you're suggesting.

 

[yeh1705]

Nope..I got one of those too, there is 1 ces in my gallery . At first I thought it may be Sansibia, but then looking at these other pictures, the only other suggestion I've received was Sympodium. I figured since more of the posters here were able to tell the other 2 apart, maybe someone had an idea of what these powder blue ones are.

 

[Klownfish]

Yeh1705-

It's tough to tell from your pictures. The "light Blue" almost looks like Clove Polyps, but it's tough to tell from your picture. Sorry. The Cespitularia that's listed doesn't show the true color of the coral. Try taking another picture with either natural sunlight, or use a flash. The Cespitularia will show an irredescent color to it. The Blue Anthelia will not. Anthelia will not close like most Xenia's. When out of water, it just flops.

 

[yeh1705]

nvm..deleted what I wrote..

 

[JDrex]

I will admit...I am not 100% sure if what I have is Sansibia, but I have blue anthelia in my tank and the two look completely different. What I think is Sansibia looks a lot like a thick short lawn of grass compared to my anthelia which looks like palm trees. I wish there was an easy way to tell.

 

[luckykid]

How long does it take to split/double?

It doesn't seem like they grow as fast as the more common Xenias.

Also, for those who have them, what lighting are you using?

 

[Shawnts106]

Could this be Cespitularia?

 

[ViPeR_930]

Doesn't look like cespitularia, but nice smiley.

I got a nice big colony of sansibia the other day. The seem to be coming in a lot to the Bay Area in the past month. Most places have been calling them clove polyps.