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01-31-2008, 02:18 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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sorry to hear that Phenix,
Ive got some cool growth pics but having some trouble resizing them, will keep trying. _________ 
55gl skimmerless, 80lbs live rock, DIY wavemaker running 3x MJ1200 with hydor deflector.
2 DIY fluidized reactors Carbon & ROWAphos
LIghts- 2x 50/50 atinics T10's , 2x life gro T10's ,
1x20,000K T12, 1x6,000K T10.
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01-31-2008, 02:28 PM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Originally Posted by BaxterS80  Our first coral was a toadstool leather...It was a nice size when we first got it and it has nearly doubled in size...We put our first coral in at about 7 weeks, I know some would say that is too soon, but it has worked for us. We now have a tank with many corals and they are all thriving...Good luck, man..  | Baxter is sure right about toadstools. Mine stayed pretty small for the longest time after fragging it from its mother which was overgrowing tank.
Then one day it decided to take off.
Here is pic back in June last year...about 4 times the size when I first cut from parent, year or so earlier.
This is it a couple of weeks ago...and it is not even fully expaned in pic! 
Won't be long before this one is going to have to come out...
Will cut of a couple of pieces and just start cycle all over again.  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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01-31-2008, 05:07 PM
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#13 (permalink)
| | Panda Puffer
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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Xenia is a great begginer coral that will alert you to parameter issues. Just keep it on an isolated island so it doesnt spread to adjacent rocks and attach. Just prune and frag it when it grows a little larger than desired. _________  | |
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01-31-2008, 05:32 PM
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#14 (permalink)
| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 39
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You xenia keepers have obviously never seen what I call "polyp hopping" where the coral will throw a polyp or more "into the wind" to colonize other areas of the tank. To quote Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park...."Nature Finds a Way" | |
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01-31-2008, 05:46 PM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2008
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I have a stupid question, Can you just the xenia off the rock that it is on and frag it onto another piece of rock in order to move it or will that kill it? | |
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01-31-2008, 06:45 PM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 35
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yes but if you cut it the stump will grow back,even if its just a spec.i prefer to rip it off with a pair of hemostats so most of the time it don't grow back.the xenia will attach to anything it touches more than a couple days.
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55 gallon reef with 4x54 watt t5,29 gallon sump,red monti cap,1blue echinophyllia,trumpet,red lobo,2 toadstools 1purple and 1neon,gsp,xenia and yellow xenia,red ,many mushrooms,2 giant frilly shrooms,cabbage coral,yellow polyps,many zoos,1 orange and one neon green nepthia,duncans,cladiella | |
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01-31-2008, 07:34 PM
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#17 (permalink)
| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Originally Posted by Glewis121 I have a stupid question, Can you just the xenia off the rock that it is on and frag it onto another piece of rock in order to move it or will that kill it? | Just move another rock against the one the xenia is sitting on. It will quickly hop over to, and you will two xenia rocks...  | |
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02-02-2008, 01:38 AM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Tassled File Fish
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
Posts: 1,998
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or put them on the back of a crab | |
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02-02-2008, 09:25 AM
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#19 (permalink)
| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Charleston,WV Age: 34
Posts: 169
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Originally Posted by amcarrig You xenia keepers have obviously never seen what I call "polyp hopping" where the coral will throw a polyp or more "into the wind" to colonize other areas of the tank. To quote Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park...."Nature Finds a Way" | That is what happened to mine. I now have a second colony on the other end of the tank and growing fast. I think the first colony is getting ready to hop another peice. It looks great but sure is hard to keep on the med. size. _________  90g plumbed to basement,75g sump with 10g refugium inside,250 Aqualine skimmer,QuietOne 6000 for return,HydorKoralia's #3 #4,2 kind zoanthus,3 kind mushrooms,pulsing xenia,yellow polyps,Sailfin Tang,coral beauty,sixline wrass,lawnmower blenny,Kole Tang,royal gramma,firefish,snails,hermits,crabs,serpent star,large feather duster | |
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