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01/28/2010, 09:39 PM | #26 |
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high ammonia will nuke it fast, it will literally vaporise.
but other than that it's about the sturdiest coral you can have. I had some that got eaten by a peppermint shrimp... i'm guessing he left a piece buried in the sand... anyways about 2-3 months later i was totally redoing my aquascape and digging around the sand for shells and such and somehow must have exhumed the xenia.... just looked like a little grey-purple ball but it sure enough had about 2-3 raggedy little polyps still on it... within a week it had 10-12 full sized polyps all pumping furiously. amazing little coral. it will also fix a very large proportion of ammonia directly... will grow under almost any lighting/flow conditions... but grows incredibly fast under very high light... it fixes ammonia at a greater rate than caulerpa (about 4x) and nitrite/nitrate somewhat less than caulerpa. will also remove heavy metals, as will just about everything in your tank! |
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There is possibly something more to this.
I gave a frag of xenia to my dad, who had a new (<2 weeks old) JBJ picotope. The frag was healthy, pulsing, and fat. After living 2 weeks in the picotope, it was looking just as good. The colony would go nuts in the hour of natural sunlight it received every morning. The other corals in the tank - zoanthids, mushrooms, a monti, and a frogspawn - were also looking healthy. The tank went through a normal diatom bloom & cyano bloom. Several weeks later the GSP was added, and the xenia began a slow decline. They are within 2 inches of a large GSP colony. They've been looking worse and worse. I know this is anecdotal, not experimental evidence, but I'm thinking that GSP and xenia are non-compatible in proximity. I can't attribute the xenia's rapid decline to anything else. To prove that the tank's water isn't unsuitable, the montipora cap I gave him is still doing well, it even has full polyp extension and a little stony growth. Quote:
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01/29/2010, 02:41 AM | #28 |
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Here's a perfect example of the mysteriousnature of xenia. I got 3 stalks free from my lfs. I took them home and dropped them in my fuge. One thrived, is growing and pulsing. One landed a few inches away and immediately shriveled up and looks horrible, but hasn't died or grown in over a month. The third one fell down into the rocks and is spreading down inside, and looks fine but is not pulsing. That's 3 frags all from the exact same original colony, all added at the exact same time, no more than six inches away from each other, all behaving completely differently...who even knows with this stuff.
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Re: Pumping xenia
Bump for an interesting topic I think about often.
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It thrives like a weed, and makes no sense or reason for what it does. I can't kill it, even when I try ...And it smells like a dead rotting corpse. .
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02/11/2010, 08:06 AM | #31 |
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I have GSP and Xenia in a 40gallon. Both are growing at fragable rates. FWIW: I do run carbon almost constantly and skim using a 'cheap' skimmer...as I feel should be done in a mixed reef env't. The skimmer is essentially the only mechanical filtration on the tank.
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06/16/2010, 09:56 AM | #33 |
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i do like the look of a few stalks in the tank. gently swaying back and forth..
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09/20/2018, 02:11 PM | #34 |
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Considering Xenia in a small fuge that will be hang on in front of sump. Grandkid eye level.
Will I risk the chance of it migrating into the return section of the sump and on to the DT?
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