well, I got a 10 gallon, glocklt4 hasn't told us his tank size (but please do, that helps a lot in most questions)
After what you said about the iodine I was thinking about using it. My Xenia is great and seems to really like it, but it does not pump a lot anymore. I guess that's the reason
But you said something about algae growth ... well, that's pretty much my biggest problem in that tank, and I'm not sure I should do that then. I feed phytoplankton about every other to every 4th day. I turn of the power filter for 2 hours and let them eat and they seem to like it.
I feed my fish brine shrimp once in a while and normally my Xenia gets lucky and catches some too.
So I guess I stick to that what I do for this tank. But I will get more life rock for my big tank next week and as soon as the parameters are fine I'll put some Xenia over.
I frag my Xenia. I go to the LFS and get small "sticks" of life rock. I put them into the Xenia. Just between two arms. and after about 2 weeks I have one arm on the small "stick". I don't wait until it lets go of the old rock. I cut it with a razor blade when there are healthy big feet on both sides. Then I put the stick in a different spot and have a new frag. they look horrible for about 3 hours, then it's like nothing ever happened.
This is probably nothing new for the more experienced reef keepers here, but fun for the newbies
