Kenya Tree good?

[daudelus]

The branches that fuse and drop off become swollen. A big visual difference between them and the mother colony.

With that said, it would seem best to preemptively trim, right? So they can be disposed of, or attached to rubble and contained in some way.

 

[bassn99]

I went so far as to cut everything I could reach in my tank and threw them in the fuge until I could get around to mounting them to rocks and taking them to the LFS. As you should have read by now, they populate very fast under the right conditions (for them).
I evidently must have ideal conditions because I can not get rid of it. I'm to the point now of having my LFS take out all the rock it's attached to, find all the stragglers in the sand, on the glass (they'll grow anywhere) and kalk the rest we can't reach.
They are a very nice looking coral but they just get out of hand so fast. I work out of town a lot and the wife does not fool with the tanks, so by the time I'm back in town I have another invasion. They will also grow on top of a colony of zoanthids or anything else they fall and attach to slowly killing them either from chemical warfare or blocking all the available light.
Just my 2 cents on these corals.

 

[Pinkskunk]

Mile

is that tree yellow in color or is my eyes fooling me?

i dont mind having a weed forest of that color.

Here is what is in my tank and it works for me atm. Hardy stuff.

And if u look u can see the swollen tips ready bud off the main colony. Center of pic.

 

[kingfisher62]

Yes daedalus, the branches get sort of crimped before they fall off. I have had one before and it never reproduced. This new one has fragged itself 5 times and I am kinda digging it right now. We will see how it goes. I would not worry too much about that now . You can cross that bridge when or if you get to it!

 

[kingfisher62]

What I want to know is why my picture looks so differant than mile sq. reefer's picture?

 

[daudelus]

What I want to know is why my picture looks so differant than mile sq. reefer's picture?

Your corals do look pretty different. How greatly do they vary?

 

[mile sq. reefer]

Um its a light tan with neon green in the branches. I took the photo with no flash, adjustments to the exposure and the white balance to accomodate the lighting. No photoshop. Just camera settings. And i run 2x150w HQI AB 10ks, super white with peaks in all the right places. Best lamp for your buck, color, PAR, and lamp life.

 

[daudelus]

Do you run any extra actinic lighting? I run 2x150 hqi 15k and I sometimes wish there was more blue... it just seems to fade away after a week or two of use...

 

[Pinkskunk]

Mile,

your coral might not be a Kenya tree but a Nephthea? can you try to take a closed up pictures of the branches and polups?

they dont look tan but more like yellow or golden to me. to make my point, just use the face of the saddlback clown as color reference. The polups of your coral and the clown face are similiar in color. no way that clown has a tan face as i have a pair myself

 

[spw4949]

Mile,

your coral might not be a Kenya tree but a Nephthea? can you try to take a closed up pictures of the branches and polups?

+1, that is definately not a kenya tree.......

 

[mile sq. reefer]

No actinic just straight MH lighting for 8 hours, the coral is known as Capnella, and the clown has an orange/brown face and its A polymnus. Close up pic I will get later. You can check it to the pic on page 135 on Eric Bornemans "Aquarium Corals" when the brances are closed it resembles the pic on botton right of the page. Genus Capnellais in the Nephtheidae Family with a common name of Kenya tree coral.

 

[Pinkskunk]

mile,

regardless whatever we or you call it, i would like a stalk of it and will pay a prepaid shipping via fedex if you are generous enough to sell a stalk to me? shipping is pretty easy. Bag it, box it, and drop it off.

i will send you box, and bags.etc...

 

[cam1270]

Kenya trees are just like xenia, nice at first but are hard to get rid of when your bored of them. I've tried a couple different ways to kill them. They always seem to come back. Good luck if you get them.