post pics of your Xeniid corals

[Gary Majchrzak]

 

[XeniaMania]

 

[know-it-all]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7317029#post7317029 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak

that is an excellent photo

 

[reefnewbie54321]

I have some experience with xenia but the stuff I had last time was a gift frag and was brown and didnt pulse.

I want to add a white pulsing xenia that will survive under pc lighting, I dont want them to grow to fast anyways so I think PC will do just fine. (my b-days tommorow though and there was a package from hellolights ... I think I got a t5 retrofit)

 

[mbbuna]

 

[Klay]

does xenia need extremely storng light to survive?
strong flow?

 

[Lyscer]

Pom-Pom of some sort, grows like a weed in my tank and is the size of a basketball. It also happens to be the host for my clowns

 

[reefnewbie54321]

bump, I want to see more!

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

ttt ^

 

[cristhiam]

 

[Snowboarda42]

 

[JJ21]

i'm afraid to add xenia to my tank It never survived in my other tank but i might want to add and island of xenia in the front of my BC 29 when I get it up and running. Will it take over the tank if it is isolated on a island?

 

[cristhiam]

my old tank xenia reactor

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11497954#post11497954 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JJ21
i'm afraid to add xenia to my tank It never survived in my other tank but i might want to add and island of xenia in the front of my BC 29 when I get it up and running. Will it take over the tank if it is isolated on a island?

it's possible for Xenia to "take over the tank" if conditions are right and you take no action. All it takes is for one stalk of Xenia to float off your island and attach to a new location.

 

[CodeToad]

Cespitularia:

 

[dendro982]

The same compact white xenia, low light tank:

Same, plus anthelia (waving hand):

Pardon the mess, and no comments about tankmates, please - everybody is OK for a very long time

Interesting thing - this xeniids just dissolved, when I changes the salt mix to Oceanic, and redirected half of the flow to the bottom.

 

[K' Family Reef]

cool pics!

here is some have in a 50gal fuge
they have grown into a forest of xenia right now - as the pieces that get pulled from main display (only small patch kept there) then get placed into fuge to attach to LR (then lfs credit from there)

have also ranted about using these as nutrient export
as the xenia seems to outgrow the chaeto in my system

see the following article from dr Ron shimek for more info about this
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-12/rs/feature/index.php

 

[K' Family Reef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11503184#post11503184 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dendro982
The same compact white xenia, low light tank:

Same, plus anthelia (waving hand):

Pardon the mess, and no comments about tankmates, please - everybody is OK for a very long time

Interesting thing - this xeniids just dissolved, when I changes the salt mix to Oceanic, and redirected half of the flow to the bottom.

have changed salt mix 3x
never had them 'dissolve' - have heard others speak of them doing this though.

wasnt until recently
noticed that some of the tons of xenia have in my system (primarily in a 50gal fuge) were starting to deteriorate... sent up a red flag so began testing water parameters...

due to 1 of 2 reasons or both
the ph was low in the a.m even though run 24hour lited chaeto fuge (iow ph is usually more stable and should not be low in the a.m in this system)

determined the ph was low bec
the salinity was high...

once problem was corrected the xenia went back to looking healthy w/n a few days

i suspect that these problems mentioned re melting colonies of xenia etc are due to 'abnormal' ph and/or salinity.


what do others think about causes of this ???

regards

 

[Pea-brain]

IME they also are horrible with temp swings. I nearly lost my 7 stalks of newly bought xenia to high temps. Then I lost the survivors to a tank crash a couple weeks later *sigh*

Dan

 

[LobsterOfJustice]