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GuOD
05/10/2007, 03:23 PM
Q1: So I was just moving some stuff around randomly and discovered these little flowers in my tank. I have never owned a xenia or seen it on any coral I've purchased. Even weirder - this stuff is growing out of a BASE rock that was dry as a bone when I received it.

http://i5.*******.com/6g2os4o.jpg

Q2: I just turned off my flow and turned it back on (for feeding) and my milli + acro both started to spit white strands out of the ends of some branches. Is this normal at all?

Q3: I moved my frogspawn and while moving it a bunch of dead chunks fell off (still inflated) but deflated when I touched them... as if they were still alive! Is this normal? The coral is perfectly healthy.

Thanks reefers!
ReefWreak
05/10/2007, 03:26 PM
Yes
2. Yes, they're the polyps hanging out to grab some food
3. I have NO idea what that was. Sounds weird... I don't know about it spawning like that, so I would have to assume the worst and assume that it's dieing/falling apart, however asking in the LPS forum might be better?
GuOD
05/10/2007, 03:28 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9917213#post9917213 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ReefWreak
Yes


How on earth can a little xenia like that appear on a base rock?

Should I kill it now before it spreads to plague proportions?
frederickk
05/10/2007, 03:34 PM
Why would you want to kill a xenia?

They are nice altought they grow fast, you can still let them grow and then trade them to your LFS.
alan214
05/10/2007, 03:36 PM
I believe those may be clove polyps instead of xenia.
SDguy
05/10/2007, 03:44 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9917308#post9917308 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by alan214
I believe those may be clove polyps instead of xenia.

I agree...octocoral...like clove, GSP, etc. Check to see if you can see a base that the polyp can retract into.
JokerGirl
05/10/2007, 03:44 PM
I would say clove polyps as well.
DJChesnutRabbit
05/10/2007, 03:44 PM
I second the cloves.
GuOD
05/10/2007, 03:57 PM
Looks like the consensus is clove polyps. No idea how they came to be in my tank!

When I shot them with the turkey baster they closed up... but that's all I noticed.
gig
05/10/2007, 04:14 PM
the are clove polyps, I have some purple ones that are slowing coming back

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/cgoldens/Fish/DSC00078.jpg
ReefWreak
05/10/2007, 04:36 PM
It may very well be cloves, but my xenia have poked little heads out of rocks that were previously uninhabited like that before and grown from that. Mine's arms also look like those as well.

Either way, I say to leave it in the tank unless/until it becomes a neusense.
Nano Chris
05/10/2007, 04:40 PM
I have some that came with my gsp, lucky i guess. :D
cham
05/10/2007, 05:16 PM
I say they are either clove or a anthelia.
gig
05/10/2007, 08:46 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9917697#post9917697 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Criminal#58369
I have some that came with my gsp, lucky i guess. :D

I lvoe surprises like that! bonus corals! :D