xenia

[gazog]

Originally Posted by omard

Linda,

Sally Jo at GARF says that xenia simply will not thrive at temps much above 76 degrees.
I can honestly that those few that survived my recent overtemp have been doing very poorly at 80 degrees.
Try a bit lower temp on next go around with them..

Scott

Omard, my tank's are between 79 and 81 degrees and I am having a hard time keeping mine in check. Its growing and spreading great, which actually doesn't bother me because I like it.

I have found that it grows and spreads faster if it has lots of light and good water conditions and lots of flow. I have it in all 3 of my Nanos and the only one it is slow growing in is the 16 which is 18" deep and has PC's on it. In my 10 and 20 it has pretty much spread everywhere.

As far as keeping it in check, I have found recently that even keeping it on a rock in the middle of the sand really doesn't work, like a Kenya tree, mine just dropped some arms or heads and where they landed they grew. didn't know this till the other day when they got big enough to reach above the rocks at one end of my tank.

[72RunningBlue]

Whats your water levels like Reef Ghost and Gazog in order to make your zenia spread like that? ph, calcium phosphates?

[gazog]

PH 8-0 to 8.2
Nitrates, ammonia, nitrites, phosphates - 0 or pretty much unreadable
Calcium and Alk, 20g - 420 - 11 DKH, 16g - 380 - 9 or 10 DKH, 10g - don't have a clue because I haven't tested that tank for anything in months.

I also do water changes every week, 10% each tank. If I miss a week, which has happened once or twice, I can tell especially with the Xenia.

I started in September with 2 small pieces in my 10 gallon, one silver tipped and one brown

Silver tipped

Brown

Full Tank Shot



And This is what it looks like now, and I have trimmed them and given allot away and stocked my other tanks out of this tank.

[mikemangue]

Here is a picture of my Xeinas. One set is a purple xeina and the other is a waving hand xeina. I've had the purple xeinas for about 2 months and they don't seem to do much in terms of spreading. Maybe i'm being too impatient but in comparison to my waving hand xeina that I received from TinFury, It was about 1 to 2 inches in size and has grown quite large over the past 3-months. I don't just throw any corals together and hope they all live in harmony, What I normally do to this 20-gallon nano tank is place the xeinas so that they grow from a mid-point height in the tank since they seem to prefer stronger lighting and then I use different types of mushrooms at the bottom of the tank since the xeinas tend to want to block out the majority of the light and mushrooms prefer low light conditions. Anyway, what i'd really love to know is what type of food would help to improve the growth of the xeinas. Some folks say that you could use "coral frenzy". It would be great to know what type of food would help to improve the size of the xeinas?

Originally Posted by Iraf

So i have some pompom xenia i got on a plug from the LFS, it's been in my tank for about a month and about doubled in size already, should i take it off the plug and attach it directly to some rock or just leave it as is?

[Iraf]

I just dose Phytoplankton about twice a week for all my corals and so far I'm getting great growth on all of them, really xenia just like alot of flow and the more light they get the faster they grow also