Mounting Xenia

[bunglito]

Any good ideas for mounting xenia? Glue has about a 50% hit or miss rate for sticking. Stabbing it with a toothpick and placing on a plug has not worked yet for me. Trying the settling method now by placing some rock in a tupperware tub and seeing if they attach. Let me know if anyone has some good ideas, looking for it to be effecient enough to mount about 10 a week.

[jfalcaro79]

Hello,

The most effective method I have found for mounting Xenia is to take to small peices of rubble rock and gently wedge the frag between them. Then take a rubber band or string and wrap them together like a sandwhich. Make sure it's not to tight, you don't want to squash the frag. It usually takes them about 3 days to attach themselves to the rubble.
Hope this was helpful, good luck!

[Mariner]

Yep. My method is similar to jfalcaro's, although I usually don't use a rubber band. I just place a small rock on top of the stalk, or wedge the stalk between some rubble pieces.
HTH,
Mariner

[bunglito]

Have you figured out a good way for a square or round plug? Or is rubble the way to go?

[CA2OR]

plus one on rubberband to frag rock

[CA2OR]

you can also get a plastic container, like what strawberries come in and place the stocks inside of that with rubble in it. Place in low flow area and in no time they should grab on.

[bunglito]

Thank ya much guys.

[swegyptian]

If they will sit on the sand they will eventually pick up a few grains, and those grains can then be glued to another rock.

[CNoonan]

I have seen a cool way to do it on GARF's website using a mesh bag that is hanging in the tank.

..I can't find it now though. :(

[bunglito]

Cool, I found it!

http://www.garf.org/MPegs/XeniaPropagation.shtml

[CNoonan]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14383211#post14383211 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bunglito
Cool, I found it!

http://www.garf.org/MPegs/XeniaPropagation.shtml
Nope- thats not it. Thats actually the only site I could find, but I swore I saw something on GARF yesterday about it.

In that method the netting is only used to secure it. In the method I am talking about, it's actually grown in the bag that is hanging in the tank. Once it's attached well to the bag, the bag is turned inside out and the xenia is grown dangling in the current on the outside of the bag. They then cut the bag up, and glued the bag/netting directly to the plug.

I'll keep looking for it.

[CNoonan]

This one!

http://www.garf.org/news16p1.html

[dalilgriffith]

Wedding Vail and rubber bands

[SNAKEMANVET]

I use the tooth pick method,just stick the tooth pick through the stalk and then stick the tooth pick in a hole in the liverock.Wait about 4 days then remove tooth pick.

[possys]

Just put one small LR next to the xenia with in week or two it will move to that LR and then you can cut it.

[amadillo]

reef epoxy, works good too

[dalilgriffith]

just got two frags today of zenia, one peice broke off, one was manualy cut. Took the wedding veil off today. It is recovering niceley. The broke-off is laying on a frag rock awaiting its new home.

[livingcorals]

rubber band than on a rock. I just did my blue xenia, silver tip and Red sea. 32 frags and by 1 week there all good.

[captstinky]

The hanging bag method works. It's really only worth the time if you are going to mount a large number of cutting. For only ten, I would use the gravel/bowel method. Problem I have with the hanging bag, it that the veil is visible on the mount for some time.

I have some DIY aragocrete, that I made with mounts in mind- almost a cuplike depression in them. I'll put frag pieces in the depression, cover with veil/rubberband, and I don't have to take time to remount, FWIW.