Zenia really is a week

ninjamini

ninjamini

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I have a small frag of pompom zenia I got with 2 heads. Now it has 5 with another head on the way. I am thinking of pulling it out and putting it in the frag tank. It attached to my feather duster and I had to pull it off its tube. It also attached to the rock next to it and I pulled it off and it left the smallest piece of flesh. It turned to a polyp then two. Now its a small zenia. I can see why people say its a weed.
So how do you kill it where you dont want it?
 
psusocr1

psusocr1

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lionfish1 take a scrub brush to the rock where you don't want it and scrub like crazy. But even then good luck. LOL
whyw ould you do that? why not just frag it and give it away to people who want xenia? this waqy you are not killing a coral but helping other peopel in the hoby get some free xenia...
 
lion_crazz

lion_crazz

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Originally Posted by psusocr1
whyw ould you do that? why not just frag it and give it away to people who want xenia? this waqy you are not killing a coral but helping other peopel in the hoby get some free xenia...
I agree with this. Even if there is not people looking for xenia, take it to your local fish store. They may even give you some nice credit for it.
 
krazekajin

krazekajin

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I have heard that xenia is not a good shipper so many times your LFS will pay a good price for local frags.
 
fallnhorse

fallnhorse

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this reminds me of the thread of the guy asking how to kill some of his mushrooms. Saying there is too many. Just like wow wish i had that problem. Hobby would final start to pay for all that expense.
 
lionfish1

lionfish1

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What I meant was after you frag it from the rock scrub what little is left. Sorry if It came off as killing it. :happyfish
 
psusocr1

psusocr1

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no just let it grow againa nd keep fragging it... i mean are you that mad about a little stalk of xenia?
 
taznut

taznut

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xeina tanks are really cool looking... i would mind if it took over the whole 20gal... that would be cool, then i would get another clown and upgrade to 55 for my other corals...
 
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oreo12

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I had trouble getting it to grow. Now I can't get rid of it fast enough. I started taking it out of the 55 and throwing it in my 75 fish only tank. It did so good in there I fragged other corals and now I added more rock to the 75 and am making it a reef with triggers and Valentine puffer. I have gave it away until now I can find no one local that wants it anymore.
 
ninjamini

ninjamini

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Originally Posted by oreo12
until now I can find no one local that wants it anymore.
People used to plant dandelions in there yard then...
 
fishcake

fishcake

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I would not keep xenia in my main display.
This coral "IMHO" is very invasive and spreads like wild fire,then will crash one day for unexplainable reasons ... leaving the aquarist with a clean up problem or worse... crash the tank.
IF you keep it, I would watch it daily!
 
armandoc

armandoc

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Ninja...
Sorry to threadjack, but if your looking to give some away, I wouldn't mind taking a frag or two off your hands if you don't mind shipping it!

let me know if your looking to get rid of some and i'll give you my email address.
Armando
 
ninjamini

ninjamini

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Originally Posted by ArmandoC
Ninja...
Sorry to threadjack, but if your looking to give some away, I wouldn't mind taking a frag or two off your hands if you don't mind shipping it!

let me know if your looking to get rid of some and i'll give you my email address.
Armando
It does not ship well.
 
lion_crazz

lion_crazz

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If you package it properly, it ships fine. I got a piece off of SWF.com, and it came beautifully. Not too long after receiving it, I gave a huge frag to a friend of mine because it was growing so well.
 
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jrthomas40

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dang i cant keep any xenia alive...they all melt away and i have good water so at times i wish i had the problem of them growning like a weed
 
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