how you care for your......

[happy_valley]

hiya folks=)

Everybody has their own way of doing things, forsay, when i get out of the shower i like to dry from my head down....this way i dont have an assface when im done!!!! haha just a jk(but really think about it;-)


k anyhow i would really like to hear about your rituals or patterns you like to follow when tending to your xenia and hammer coral!?!?

a lot of people have such great looking tank pics and those are the species that standout to me the most. so i would love to know how you(if you either have or have taken care of them) get them looking so full and rich?!?!

kind of a goofy post but just curious cuz i find them just amazing and people must have secrets to making them so wonderful=)

thanx again,

happy_valley

 

[flinka]

I am one of the lucky ones with xenia. I do nothing special for it and it grows like weeds.

 

[happy_valley]

hey thanx for posting.....a never seem to get to many responses =( i dont think i have this posting thing down yet!!!! lol

thnx again, its reassuring to here they grow in a nicely taken care of tank without too much additives!

have a great day

 

[crispyreef]

Xenia like nutrient rich water. This may not work well for your other corals unless you inport and export a lot of nutrients.

 

[happy_valley]

thnx frsfrme for the response=)

i have approx. 35 lbs of cured lr in my 29 BC, with 3.5 inches of ls and the water has been prestine for 2 months now. i started my adding kents marine nano a & b for a lil over a month now. everything seems to be growing very nicely and didnt know if thats kind of what you meant by importing nutrients, or if you meant like a refegium? my hammer coral and softies are growing fine and doing well, so i didnt know if that was a good sign to try a xenia tree!?!?!

sorry im a nub and very curious...i just love xenia trees and have to have one! i just know that they seem to be a lil more fragile(haha i just remembered the part from the movie, A Christmas Story...Fra-Gee-Lee!!! lmao) and harder to keep.

thanx again for replies

 

[natan]

Same here. Do nothing (apart from adding Iodine once a week), plenty of nutrients (10 ppm NO3) and it grows like a weed. Do have to transplant some from time to time to help it reach other places in the tank (its a relatively new one). This is done by plasing a small rock in the middle of an established bunch, it crawls up on it in no time and is ready to go.
No hammers here yet, sorry. May be later, only elegance so far.

 

[crispyreef]

Importing and exporting a lot of nutrients could mean for example heavy feeding and aggressive skimming. This allows fresh nutrients to be introduced into the system but before they accumilate to too high of levels, they are skimmed out. I don't know what your lighting scheme is but euphylids like medium flow and low to medium light (metal halide).

 

[happy_valley]

my lighting situation is a sunpod with 10k XM bulb.....i llove the light its the nicest imo!!!

i have it on from 11 to 2100 hrs....its centered towards the rear of my BC cause my aquascrape is in a cove/ horse shoe build....at the back is the biggest and most lr where it kind of circles around a nice little beach of sand right in the middle of the tank(way happy for first aquascape=) it has imo a lot of character and good spots for my wanted corals and houses some nice softies right now!

well glad to get responses and not sure if this helps....i got a aqua c skimmer on back and man does it do wonders! got a bag of chemi pure elite and 2 koralia#1's for flow...plus stock pump and outlet....basically just right for movement!

when i get my camera back im posting pics asap....but lost it at wedding and just gotta a call from bride saying her aunt accidentally got it;-) the camera that is lol man am i funny


well im getting goofy so keep'em coming please