A couple xenia pics

[fishinbuc]

For the longest time, I was one of those who could not, for some reason, keep xenia. So I figured I'd give it one more try. So I added one stalk about four months ago. The xenia took off and never looked back.

Haven't posted any pics in a while. So Here's a couple.






You can see the origainal stalk underneath and to the right of the over flow.

[CraigG]

Wow! So mucb coraline! I tried keeping xenia twice last year and it didn't last more then a week both times. We tried again about three months ago and it has been growing like crazy, and doing very well!

Thumbs up on the tank! What do you use to keep the coraline so vibrant?

[skeeter-doc]

yeah that is a ton of coralline, but I guess with no hard corals, then the calcium has to go somewhere huh?

[Fishy Business]

How did you generate all that coraline?

[ek9vboi]

subscribed... tell me... errr us!

[vessxpress1]

Originally posted by Fishy Business
How did you generate all that coraline?

I imagine he didn't scrape the glass. Everyone's tank here will look like that if they let the coraline go. If you keep your calcium, alk, and magnesium up where they're supposed to be, plant one small rock of it in there with good flow, that's what you get. I don't know what the big secret is anymore. lol

It looks like he does have a frogspawn on the bottom, so I"m sure he keeps his levels up there.

Congrats on the xenia. They're takin off in my tanks as well, and they can't be killed! No matter how many times you try to scrape it all off, new ones appear out of a white blob and grow quickly. I've auctioned them, traded them in, sadly even thrown huge clumps of it away. I traded in the original rock of it I purchased too.

[SoSa 110]

I had a 45 gallon where it did great and now my 110 will not allow me to grow it for the life of me.. my neightbor has a huge amount and its very healthy when ever he gives me a stalk it goes bye bye... anything I can do to prevent this? I am running halides and pcs all of my other softies love it why not the xenia?

[Bas Arentz]

not to much light is best for the coraline algea

[hexedagain]

It is nice when the xenia will take to your tank. The pulsing action always makes people ask "what are those things?"
Great conversation piece at least.

[IslandCrow]

Yeah, my glass would be covered inside a month if I didn't scrape. Of the two sides I don't scrape, one is completely encrusted, and the other would be 100% if my longspine urchin didn't consider it his own peronnal buffet. It grows back faster than he can eat it, though.

I'm also lucky and seem to have a tank that has no problems with xenia. I've started fragging it early to try to keep it under control, and I can see my blessing becoming a curse before too long. I just fragged one piece off about a week and a half ago and left some scrapings on the rock. There are now about a dozen heads there, and they're already pulsing away. I love the stuff, though. I could watch it for hours.

This is a couple months ago. I now have three frags that are as big as the piece in this picture of the tank. I know it's hard to see. It's to the left of the anemone on the edge of the rock.

[ek9vboi]

no coraline growth here but i want to whore out my xenia too :P

[Ironsheikh]

I'd like a frag of the pom pom xenia --anyone need codium taylori for trade let me know. pics are in my gallery

I just saw the reef tour vid and said they were good to polish phosphates can they be kept w/ an orbit 260w?

[noooze]

i think xenia is a funny thing.

when i started my 720 liters 6 months ago, i recived 2 stalks with some sand to seed with. I though - they'll probably die, as the cycle wasnt done yet, but they started growing, growing, growing, and shouldt i imagine a number of stalks - i'd say around 100 stalks now or moor

they sit i HIGH flow intense light area, in lowflow midlight area and even a stalk in between the rocks, where it gets allmost no ligt... and they keep on growing

i think i might have been lucky with this xenia, as i know it has been in tanks for " generations "

[chrisstie]

This thread makes me think waiting to get xenia when i do my 55 will be a lot better than putting some in my 12g. wowzers!

[doomicon]

Hate to bring a thread back from the dead, but is there anything you are doing diffrently now, than you did in the past, to get these results? Do you dose? If so with what? What temp do you maintain your tank at?

Those Xenia look AMAZING! Great Pics.

- long time reader, second time poster

[finding nemo]

Thought I would share some past pics of my xenia that is now in my 125 tank






and the xenia in my 125