Does this Xenia stand a chance of survival? (photos)

[Johny123]

I brought this Xenia home from the fish store two days ago. Since then it has ben knocked over by a sea urchin 4 times, fell on its head, and lost a couple of its stalks.

Furthermore I stubbornly peeled it off its base, and then I poked it with a toothpick and rubber banded it to a rock (as suggested by a member of this forum).

How tough are these things really? because this one has been through hell and back in the last 2 days? Does it stand a chance?

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[aznflyfisherman]

Thats fine it should be ok n probably attach to the rock in a few days, remove the rubberband once attach, just let it sut there for now.

 

[thegrun]

I'm fairly confident they would survive a nuclear blast, it will recover.

 

[kmbyrnes]

Can't kill 'em. The only way to get rid of them is to start over.
I trim mine every other week and feed them to my FOWLR.

 

[WatDatThing]

I'm fairly confident they would survive a nuclear blast, it will recover.

^^^

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[Valentini89]

I have one that survived 6 days lights out.

 

[Johny123]

I'm fairly confident they would survive a nuclear blast, it will recover.

So after the nuclear blast it will be all Xenia and cockroaches?

 

[kapoofta]

So after the nuclear blast it will be all Xenia and cockroaches?

Don't forget the Twinkies

 

[Foundry]

It'll survive. Our Xenia frag was knocked down thanks to a hermit then buried in sand by our pistol shrimp. We returned from a weekend away to find it missing, I eventually found it by digging through the sand.

It had lost all its stalks and was a tiny speck of purple tissue attached to a rock. This was probably a year ago, its since made a full recovery and is much better off then it was before the damage.

 

[Sk8r]

Match your water parameters to mine in my sig and there is little you can do to stop its spread.

 

[jayball]

I had some silver xenia that I had removed from my display and threw in my sump for over a year receiving almost no flow and only indirect lighting. On a whim I threw it in the back corner of my tank an within days it was inflated and happy. Two months of it slowly growing and it decided to melt, gone in 12 hours.

Moral of the story is that xenia is very hardy until it is not. You will probably be fine.

 

[swiftvision]

You don't want Xenia to survive.

 

[ericarenee]

xenia does not flourish in all systems , I have had a few pieces at different times. sometimes it will do OK For a while other times not so much. I am sure what ever it is that it needs to grow is lacking in my tank. HOW or why i do not know..

This holds true to many Corals.. Sometimes some just will not grow . even so called hardy corals when others have it to grow just fine... Its just hit and miss at times.. Xenia is def one of those so called easy Corals that do not do well in every TANK..


Good Luck With the Coral

 

[newbie2014]

^^^+1
My xenia is spreading like wildfire. It even survived H2O2 overdose that killed off all of my kenya tree.

My neon green hammer also has more than quadrupled its size. Yet my zoa and red mushroom colonies have barely increased in size since I got them 10 months ago.

 

[Snaredrum]

Match your water parameters to mine in my sig and there is little you can do to stop its spread.

My Alk is running in the range you have and I thought that was a little low? Its been driving me nuts. PH low also.

 

[ReeferNoob4ever]

I had a fast growing xenia get demolished by piles of substrate piled on by an engineer goby. Once I finally noticed, the xenia plug looked like peanut butter.

 

[zoafarm]

In most of our tanks, xenia is nearly impossible to kill. As a matter of fact, it can become almost as bad as a weed, spreading everywhere if not very careful.

So to answer your question, it will most likely live.

 

[Kremis]

nearly impossible to kill. i literally dumped super glue all over it to the point where it was shriveled up and nearly destroyed and it came back and within a month i had about 15 different branches

 

[LuizW13]

For the longest time, i really wanted a pom pom xenia; you guys are making me think twice about it.

 

[ericarenee]

For the longest time, i really wanted a pom pom xenia; you guys are making me think twice about it.

Some are making them worse then it has to be...