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07-23-2006, 09:50 AM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: New Berlin, WI Age: 29
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 |  xenia in too much current?
Attached is a 5 second quitcktime movie, just to show the kind of current my new xenia coral is under. I think it's too much, but I'm not sure. Can someone confirm this for me?
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07-23-2006, 11:12 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
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It is probably OK. Mine is in a lot of current too and it's thriving.
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07-23-2006, 12:13 PM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
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Looks fine to me. _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, Mandarin Dragonette, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA  | |
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07-23-2006, 04:45 PM
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| | Giant Squid
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Xenia do best in strong water flow areas! Supplementing with iodine is also a plus. _________ 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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07-23-2006, 05:04 PM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: New Berlin, WI Age: 29
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Thanks a ton for your suggestions. I do dose Lugol's solution from kent. I use it at 1/2 the recommended dosage. I'll pickup a test kit for iodine on Friday, bad me for not testing it I know  
I am having a hard time getting it to attach to the LR however. I have two rubber bands around the LR and the coral is between them. The coral is about 1/16" from being able to get its stalk uniformly on the rock. One portion looks to be touching atm, but it's a small piece. | |
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07-23-2006, 05:08 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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Good call on your dosing! I use Lugol's as well and it is very concentrated and lethal if overdosed. It makes a big difference to all livestock! I use the Seachem iodine test kit which costs about $15.00. It tests for iodide and iodate. Pretty straigh forward kit-I hear the Salifert test kit is good as well. | |
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07-23-2006, 05:28 PM
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| | Giant Squid
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I think that the only problem with high current is that it will cause the xenia to spread faster. Xenia spread in the direction the water is moving, so if there is alot of current the xenia will tend to spread faster. _________ Tank Specs:
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07-23-2006, 05:38 PM
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| | Eyelash Blennie
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You could put it in a lower flow area for a couple of days and it will attach to the rock no problem 
Jim
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07-23-2006, 07:06 PM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: New Berlin, WI Age: 29
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Interesting!
I only bought one stalk of it b/c I read that it does reproduce rather quickly. I didn't know that a higher current can influence that too! This type of xenia is supposed to pulsate (dunno if they all tend to). Mine hasn't done that yet, thought it was in doing it in the store right before I bought it. I wonder if current has a lot to do with it pulsating. Perhaps trying to get more nutrients. When I got home I noticed it was retracting its fingers alot. Troubled, I tested my water parms.
pH: 8.4
Nitrate: 0-2ppm
Phosphate: .25ppm (sigh @ tapwater)
Temp : 79F
Salinity 1.025
Calcium: 420
1/2 our into darkness and there totally retracted now. I haven't read about this kind of behavior. What's up with this?
Thanks again !
Last edited by serotonin; 07-23-2006 at 07:32 PM.
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07-23-2006, 07:32 PM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: New Berlin, WI Age: 29
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Perhaps I'm just worrying too much, when I went to top off my sump, it's back open. Hehe | |
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