I thought that fragging my Xena, which has exploded in my nano cube, would be relatively easy. I talked with the guys at my LFS, they even sat down and let me frag one of their xenas for them so I would know exactly how to do it, and I read what others had done. Well... I fragged about 10 pieces of it and rubberbanded it to some LR rubble. I go back and check it the next morning and the things are cutting themselves loose. The part that was under the rubberband had died on some of them, and the remaining portion was rolling or floating in some cases around the tank. What gives? i've sinced put some of them between two rocks and loosely rubberbanded others back in place, but am I doing something wrong?
Fragging Xena
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slice them off the rock at the base carefully from the base rock. Super glue them onto a piece of rubble. If your careful and not glue the hands to the base also it will be fine. Note: it will look bad for a day or so from the move, but perks up and does fine. I have done this a couple of time with great results.
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keithntracy
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i would love to have a frag of that!!! you wanna trade something for a piece?
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keithntracy
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lol...i don't have any thing to trade anyway!!!! cept a truck with no transmission!! can't find 1 at my lfs, but online about 30 bucks apiece
Rubberbands are not good to use for corals unless it is a last result. I don't know if it is the pressure of the rubber band or if they leach something onto the coral. Get some super glue gel from your LFS or you can use an epoxy stick which also leaches some bad stuff onto the coral. The epoxy will work good for attaching a coral to an uneven LR rubble.
coyoteseven
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Lotsa luck getting xenia to stay put with superglue, too much mucus. :hmm4:
Here's an old Reefkeeping Magazine article that may help out.
Securing Propagated Corals Methods of Fixing Live Coral to Hard Substrates
I've used the stitching method to attach xenia, colts, and various other mucus producing corals to LR rubble... works like a charm. :thumbsup:
Here's an old Reefkeeping Magazine article that may help out.
Securing Propagated Corals Methods of Fixing Live Coral to Hard Substrates
I've used the stitching method to attach xenia, colts, and various other mucus producing corals to LR rubble... works like a charm. :thumbsup:
With xenia I make divisions by slicing down to the bottom of the coral without removing the bottom and wait a couple of days. After a few days (or if it's just spread on it's own and I want the whole chunk) I either pull it off the rock or carefully slice it off the rock. Then I use 2 pieces of rubble and wedge it between them. It's always stuck to one of the wedges or the other after 24 hours for me. I do turn down/off my powerheads for that time though or turn them to a direction that they're not blowing too hard on the xenia.
I've actually had to rip the xenia off a shell it came on after my hermit crab decided to take my new xenia for a cruise... It looked bad for a day and 2 days later it was great.
victor6er
I've actually had to rip the xenia off a shell it came on after my hermit crab decided to take my new xenia for a cruise... It looked bad for a day and 2 days later it was great.
victor6er
TalkingReef has a fragging xenia video podcast. You can check it out at www.talkingreef.com or just look for it in the podcast section of iTunes. If you don't have an iPod you can just watch it on your computer.
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