pulsing xenia

[clamchops]

Does anyone have one and what have you found to be the special needs if any? Ive read they need a weekly dose of iodine, is this true.....thanks

 

[jumpfrog]

Just added some to my tank, actually came as a hitchiker with some grape calurpa. My first assessment is that this stuff may be somewhat bullet proof. Grows like a weed.
Don't know about supplements. I dose iodine weekly for my shrooms so the xenia will get it whether it needs it or not.
Good Luck!

 

[bammbamm74]

I have some pulsing Xenias. They do grow like weeds. My experience says you need iodine. I did a water change and didn't add iodine for about a week and a half before that. About a day later, the xenias looked like they were going to die. So, I remembered I forgot the iodine, I dosed the tank, the next day, the xenias were fine.

 

[old hermit]

i dropped mine a few days ago and they looked bad. but 2 days later they are looking good again.

 

[jakepilot]

keep them trimmed...they will take over the tank..fyi

 

[bammbamm74]

What is the best way to trim them? Exacto knife? Should I trim the heigth as well as the new arms growing on the stalks?

 

[nm reef]

Seems the recipe is good current/dang near any level of light/iodine....mine are growing like crazy!!!! Will soon be trying to return some frags to a trusted LFS and maybe use the credit for new stuff!!!! Nice to have a coral to use as barter....*_^

 

[crazy4reefs]

does anyone have a picture so i can see what they look like ?

 

[javajoe]

better than a photo-- heres a movie!
<a href="http://www.qis.net/~ckkuehn/" target="_blank">Pulsing Xenia Movie (mpeg)</a>

 

[crazy4reefs]

thanks javajoe, that was cool!!

 

[deucey]

Hey.....I have been keeping Xenia now for about a year and a half....it was one of my first corals....the main thing with these corals is to give them current and high lighting!! I never add iodine but i do think that these corals need atleast moderate lighting.....they love my MH and if you want them to grow put them in a high current environment.....but beware they will grow fast and overtake rocks, glass and whatever else they want! Iodine may help the growth of this coral not sure.....it is a softy so prob so....never tired it! GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY REEFING!

 

[deucey]

Good idea for fraging....most of the time i have just cut it with a stight razor and then took the frag and rubber banded it to a piece of rubble rock and it attaches quickly....1-3 days...i usually have trouble with the current sweeping mine away if i don't rubber band!....just another suggestion!.....good luck

 

[von_rahvin]

i just rip them in half, very forcefully. I can not tell you how many of those things that i have killed. mine double in size every 3 weeks

 

[von_rahvin]

i just rip them in half, very forcefully. I can not tell you how many of those things that i have killed. mine double in size every 3 weeks so i have to keep them in check

 

[fishfreek]

You can also frag them by just setting a small piece of l/r next to it just so it is touching the stem. Over a course of about a week, it will move there. After most of it has attached to the rock, just cut the rest of the stalk with a razor. I found this method by far the easiest way to frag xenias.