Pulsing Xenia - I Want ALL The Opinions

If you really want pulsing Xenia, u can isolate it but you need to keep an eye out for the one that start to walk or one that detach and float away and remove it ASAP. I had mine for a few yrs and manage to keep them on the rock by itself. Anthelia is the worst IMO as well...
 
I have a display fuge full of Xenia it does a great job of reducing nutrients. I have a course sponge before my return section to make sure it doesn't make it into my main display

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Is it the Xenia or the fact that your taking care of it? Couldn't you just nip it in the bud and achieve the same results with the tank regardless? In other words, do the work yourself... KISS... Food for thought...
 
I say go for it.. it can always be trimmed. Also, I am going to be ordering a 150g tall in a few weeks. I was wondering if you could share your setup specs.
 
mcgyvr said:
H E L L NNOOOO
That is the worst weed of them all..
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Agreed, these are the worst offenders.
There are varieties of xenia (and GSP) that spread super slow. A good example of slow GSP is Mike Paletta's 300 gal SPS tank. Problem is that some of these ideal xenia, like Bali if I remember them as slower growers correctly, are expensive. Hell, I think a general rule of corals are: the cheaper they are (xenia, monti cap), the faster the grow. And the faster they grow, the more oe needs to be purposeful about introductions.

I treat my anthelia like caulerpa. Keep in the sump, remove it here and there for export.

Someone can chime in but I think similar looking softies like cespitularia are slower growing. these might be a viable alternative for 'the look'.
 
Depends on your tank. In really good conditions it can take over like crabgrass---so can clove polyp and green star polyp, kenya tree, purple mushrooms and browns. Back in the day, it was pretty well all we could succeed with---and now it succeeds too well and becomes a pest that's really hard to stop. It fragments and spreads like mad. Plus xenia smells really bad on your hands, which indicates it's particularly good at the soft-coral 'chemical warfare' defense that can discourage other corals. If you really love it, power to you. But only if you love it a lot.
 
Valentini89 said:
I say go for it.. it can always be trimmed. Also, I am going to be ordering a 150g tall in a few weeks. I was wondering if you could share your setup specs.
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I have found trimming to be pretty easy.

I have a spot in my tank where I placed a $2 pathetic little frag of xenia about 6 months back, and now it's happy, healthy, and moving its way down my rock constantly.

However, I can undo about 6-8 weeks of growth in about 2 minutes by plucking off the main stems of it. I keep it localized to the exact area I want with little to no effort at all. It's not as bad as some let on if you are willing to trim a little bit.
 
I already have a green star polyp invasion! I'm gonna have to remove some of my rock to get it under control. :(

That's why I'm trying to be more informed b4 I add new inhabitants.


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Valentini89 said:
I say go for it.. it can always be trimmed. Also, I am going to be ordering a 150g tall in a few weeks. I was wondering if you could share your setup specs.
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I think the only specs not in sig are kessil 360w x 2.

Don't remember how many #s of live rock - a lot ? (sorry not super helpful). I'm preparing to aquascape vertically - wish I'd done this in beginning.

Also adding apex jr may1 (budget)

When I started 7yrs ago, didn't even have sump. I move slowly, tank is very much still work in progress! 😊
 
After much googling of pics, I’m thinking torch. What I read says medium to low light? The rock I have in mind is lower fourth of my tank. Anyone w opinions on this, please share!
 
Nope. Just nope.

I had a small xenia frag cover all of my rock in my 150g. There is such thing as too much of a good thing, and this is a great example.

Unless you will prune it regularly, and keep a watchful eye for floaters, I definitely wouldn't unless you are shooting for an "all-Xenia" tank. Even then, I wouldn't do it.

Same for Kenya trees. I had to break down my tank to get rid of it.
 
I love xenia too... my girlfriend does as well...i started with a single polyp on a toadstool frag...within a few months...i had a basketball sized ball of xenia... that looked amazing... but I could see it spreading even further and faster...so.. I moved it all down to my fuge..49 gallon bowfront...100+lbs of rock...

It won't be much longer and that whole fuge will be one big pulsing psychedelic trip lol... I now have 3 or 4 different species of xenia in the fuge... I am looking for some silver xenia to complete my xenia multi species fuge

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Avoid it at all costs. My partner liked the look of it and put it in his tank. About six months later we were fighting it as much as possible, wound up giving most of the live rock in the tank to the LFS and rebuilding the tank from scratch because how much it took over.
 
I have some, I like it. But you have to stay on-top of it, and even then there is no guarantees it will stay isolated.

More then one occasion I've had it release, and attach it self to random locations in the tank.

However Keeping clean water really slows down the growth.
 
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