Who here has XENIA???
- Thread starter ek9vboi
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The best I can say from my point of view is that the Xenias are being placed too high that they start to melt. Just find a nice place thats low in your 38g tank. If that doesn't work then place it under a shaded area. BTW I don't know much about MH but how many watts are you putting out? I use PC and am in the "trying phase" of growing Xenia.
zoltetov
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Xenia is very fussy. There seems to be two kinds of tanks in regards to xenia: those in which it lives, and those in which it dies. If you search these boards, you'll find tons of threads on the subjects, and people with perfectly pristine tanks can't grow it, while others, with the exact same parameters, can't control it. I don't think, as a collective, we know enough about it as a species. The general consensus just seems to be, it may live, or it may not.
I know that's a bad answer, but that seems to be the best anyone has been able to come up with here at reef central.
I know that's a bad answer, but that seems to be the best anyone has been able to come up with here at reef central.
Rogger Castells
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IMO Xenia is a type of coral that will easily spread and thrive in any tank once it is established, the key word been "established" my best advised is to try to get a stalk that has been leaving in a aquaria for a while, IMO wild xenia does not do well when shipped, if possible get one that is firmly attached already to a piece of rock, acclimate this xenia to your water slowly, make sure when you place it in the tank you put it in an area were there is no extreme anything, this includes light and current, and then, don't do nothing else just leave it alone! don't try to move it, feed it or anything! let it get acclimated in that spot by itself.
Once you have done this and get this piece to spread it is virtually a weed that will tolerate just about anything in your water parameters including high Phosphates, nitrates high light low light, high current, ow current you name it.
I have a tank that I harvest xenia on a regular basis and it grows very well, I had a friend of mine who gave me a large rock of the same type of xenia but wild to keep for him until he got his tank set up, this xenia died in my tank with in one week , it just melted away for no apparent reason. I placed that rock next to one of my colonies and with in a week one xenia stalk had shoot a limp into the rock, right now the rock is completely covered with xenia (figure that)
Once you have done this and get this piece to spread it is virtually a weed that will tolerate just about anything in your water parameters including high Phosphates, nitrates high light low light, high current, ow current you name it.
I have a tank that I harvest xenia on a regular basis and it grows very well, I had a friend of mine who gave me a large rock of the same type of xenia but wild to keep for him until he got his tank set up, this xenia died in my tank with in one week , it just melted away for no apparent reason. I placed that rock next to one of my colonies and with in a week one xenia stalk had shoot a limp into the rock, right now the rock is completely covered with xenia (figure that)
Rogger Castells
New member
Those are cool pics, and it looks like the one that survived was the one that was attached to a rock.
astrogazer
Premium Member
I had some blue xenia that I had bought, after about two weeks it just seemed to disolve from the base rock. Now as I look around in cracks and crevises I've noticed single stalks growing everywhere.
