Taking out and adding

I wish they wouldn't.

We started an 8g tank yesterday that will be the frag tank so once it's cycled and ready I'm planning on pulling out that hunk of insanity. No worries though, there's plenty more xenias on the other rocks to cause more problems! :

 

luckily mine are segregated on a rock by itself. theyre growing up my over flow now. lol. should look cool if they fill that in , along with the gsp.

 

That's a good way to do it, but I'd still worry about the floating babies...I've found mine clear on the other side of the tank. I can't win with these things lol

 

I really like the look of your tank, how long has it been running? Also how big of a xenias colony did you start with and how long did it take to get that big?

 

not to hijack, but i bought 2 stalks about 3 months ago. i moved roughly 8 into a mantis tank. and now im up to prob 50 or so.

 

Mantis? I'm dying for a mantis, I can't wait to move out so I can get one. What kind do you have? I saw a peacock today at the store, it was huge.

The tank will be a year old in June. The xenias came on some rock and were about the size of a golf ball last November so it's been 6 months. I remember being exciting when they started to grow...pffffffft

 

I have a 29g cube, would you not recomend putting them in a smaller tank like ours again?

 

ive got a n.wennerae in a 10 gal. found it around xmas as a hitchhiker. took a year for it to show itself. i can hear its smashing a new cerith or nassarius as i type. lol

 

Putting xenia in any size tank can turn into a pain. Depends if they like your tank or not. They don't call it the weed of reef tanks for nothing. If you don't mind trimming it down a lot then go for it, the pulsing xenia can be pretty cool to watch.

 

These pulse, they're really pretty but I wouldn't do it again only because I want other corals. If you don't need the rock space for other corals then I don't see a problem with it.

Maybe cutting the stalk with a scalpel isn't the right way to rid of them? lol All my corals close up for days after messing with them. I heard pulling on them or picking them off the rock is another way to keep them in check but we had no such luck. I'm worried they'll kill other things from the constant sliming or whatever so I don't want to deal with them anymore.