xenia

[gmonticue]

I recently purchased a branching hammer coral that has a small brown xenia on the stalk. Now the xenia is moving closer to the hammers polups. I would like to remove the xenia, without killing it, before the two begin to fight and haphazerdly hurt any of my other corals or each other. What would be the best way to go about doing this?

 

[Gdevine]

Xenia are safe and do not sting or poison others.

 

[Dubbin1]

Simply cut it off and then scrape off whats left.

 

[Gdevine]

As for your hammer that's another story. At night, its sweeper tentacles can extend up to six inches in your aquarium, stinging other species of corals and animals.

That baby need plenty of room between it and other neighboring corals.

 

[Arkayne]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10180207#post10180207 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Dubbin1
Simply cut it off and then scrape off whats left.

Say I scraped what's left of it off, if a piece of the Xen floats away and gets stuck on a rock somewhere, will it grow into another Xen?

 

[champscorner]

so u can just cut it off then with out the xenia dying???

 

[ahullsb]

yes. Just make sure to either tie the frag down with fishing line/ dental floss etc. so that the flow in your tank doesn't blow the xenia to a place where you don't want it to grow.

 

[pmartin727]

Xenia grow wild and even grow on the glass, filters and powerheads