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04-11-2006, 12:05 AM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Dec 2005
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 |  Bad Accident! Help!
I just bought a xenia today on a plug. After I put it in my tank, it got knock over by the hermits. :mad: And to make things worse, I pressed half of the plug on a flat piece of rock when I try to pick it up.  It have 3 small stalk on that plug and 2 of them are flat and deflated. Will they regrow or they are gone for good? Do I have to remove the damaged/dead xenia? 
Thanks!
GKW
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Started on Jan 24, cycled on Feb 17
125 gallons (72" x 18" x 22"), 20 gallons sump, 29 gallons fuge. 90 lbs sugar fine sand in MT and 30 in fuge.
Equipments:
Coralife Super Skimmer 220 w/ an air pump to increase micro bubbles, Mag drive 9.5 return pump
2 Maxi 900 and Rio+ 2100 as powerheads, Mag 350 filter
Lighting:
110watts PC, 70watts NO
Resident:
2 Polyps Ricordia
Royal Gramma, Lawnmower Blenny
Sally Light Foot
Pepermint Shrimp
70 Blue Leg Hermits
25 Snails | 
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04-11-2006, 02:01 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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Just leave them. They are very hardy and resillient. they should be fine. Give them alot of water movement and supplement with iodine. _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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04-11-2006, 06:39 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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I have some xenia that are attached to a peice of LR as big as a quarter. Beleive me they get knocked around by everybody including me. Dont worry about it they will come back.. just give them a couple of hours.
Marc. _________ 
20Gal, 45 lbs LR, 65W PC 10 000K + 65W PC 20 000K + 10Gal sump/fuge
Livestock :hermit and snails, Green star polyps, Button polyps, Finger leather, Xenia, Zoanthids, Mushrooms, Yellow polyps, montipora digitata, acropora, ?mistery polyps?, mistery crab, six line wrasse | |
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04-11-2006, 07:00 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 45
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Sounds exactly like my own experience. They'll be fine. Mine are thriving now. 
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180 Gallon Reef, 150 lbs of LR and 4" LS. 4-175w 10k MH. 8-110 W actinic VHO, 2 Wave2K, LifeReef Skimmer . A 90 gal sump, Top-Off. 2Mag 9.5 return, Life Reef CR LCR-1. 1 Cin Clown, Bub coral, Xenia, Purp Tang, Yellow Tang, Pogoda, 4 Gobies, Niger Trigger, Angel, Brittle Star | |
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04-11-2006, 07:01 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 45
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Coral Reefer's right. Iodine. | |
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04-11-2006, 09:51 AM
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#6 (permalink)
| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Ok, I feel better now.  Thanks!
About dosing Iodine, do I add it to the water or do I have to 'target' dose? What level should Iodine be?
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04-11-2006, 10:10 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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If i can remember correctly the level is 0.06 meq/l and you just dump it in the water.
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04-11-2006, 03:55 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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Dont worry, Xenia are very hardy when it comes to being smushed, i have had all sorta of stuff fall on them...most of the time they stick to is and then i have a new frag under a rock lol... _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1 x 54w Fiji Purple T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w Super Actinic Blue T5 HO Flourescent
1 x 54w 14000K AquaBlue 75/25 T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
Hard Stuff:
100+ lb. Fiji Live Rock
65+ lb. Live sand
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04-12-2006, 10:13 AM
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#9 (permalink)
| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Ok, I just moved down the button polyp rock today because he was 'squating' down yesterday and saw a stalk of xenia already attached to the edge of that rock...WOW. They ARE hardy. They are pumping back up slowly, but surely. Of course, I wish I didn't smush them in the first place. 
BTW, I am about to order Iodine and Calcium test kit, what else should I get?
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04-18-2006, 06:35 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: London, ON, Canada
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FWIW, I've never dosed iodine and I farm xenia for sale to a Local LFS. I make a lot of money each year just on this coral alone. If xenia needed iodine, why does mine grow so well and look better than anyone elses that trys to sell them to this LFS?
I also hear a lot about shrimp needing iodine. I have a lot of shrimp in my tanks. They sure don't seem to miss the dosing of iodine either.
As for test kits, I use the alkalinity kit first and also use calcium and magnesium kits as well. Instead of a pH kit, I prefer to use a pH pen as I don't trust the colour systems the kits use to determine pH.
I don't test for anything else and I don't add anything else. | |
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