placing xenia

[craig_will2513]

iv just brought a xl colony of xenia. i was wondering where to place it in the aquarium. and if they like high flow.. at the minute its in the high flow and its waving all over the place.

 

[Fishguy2727]

They like low flow. They will actually move and spread out so it is best to start them in a relatively isolated area of the tank (on a small island of a rock, on top of a large rock that you could remove if needed, etc.). Unless something goes wrong they will start to take over so be able to frag it and bring it in for a little credit (if you are lucky).

 

[scubasteve03]

I have a xl xenia also thay love high flow as far as in my tank, I have a powerhead right on them also a pair of oc clowns hosted it, crazy I know. Thay grow like crazy so will need to be cut back or fraged.

 

[carey]

Xenia is like a plague! lol I had the tiniest $4 stalk in my pico and now its bigger than my hand in only like a month. I had to move it into my 125g already. I really love the waving hands thing but if i had a choice I wouldnt get anymore again. Just too much growth and they take over very easily...

 

[scubasteve03]

Lol most def if I knew that thay would grow like thay have I wouldnt have got them. But it is now my clowns home so I lost that battel. My clowns wont even let me get close to them now... face palm

 

[carey]

Well at least you dont have to worry about them killing an expensive coral and you dont need to consider a nem. Wish mine would host my xenia. LOL

Good luck...btw do you have a picture of them doing this, probably looks really neat.

 

[craig_will2513]

cool so they spead then.. so fishguy says they like low flow and you guys say high lol...so once they grow how do i cut them back.. do i cut the actual stalk or the rock its on. what do i do once i cut it back where do i put it

 

[scubasteve03]

well as far as the flow just move them around see what works for yours.

 

[carey]

OMG, that is the cutest thing ever! They are in a forest of xenia lol

I would think taking a whole stalk would be the easiest method, I;m just now starting, just starting to read about fragging. I have some extreme colonies of corals i will need to address sooner than later. lol

 

[scubasteve03]

Lol thanks carey

I agree takeing a stalk would be the easyest way to frag them

 

[craig_will2513]

when u say taking a stalk do you mean cut it of the rock (wont this kill it)

 

[carey]

If you have multiple stalks on a rock just peel one off or cut it off. get as close tothe rock surface as you can adn glue it onto a plug or another rock. At least thats what I had to do. In the pico one of the stalks split and was starting to adhere to another rock so I peeled it very carefully off the other rock and it seems to be fine.

 

[craig_will2513]

can anyone post a link on how to frag

 

[carey]

theres supposed to be some great videos on utube,just do a search.

 

[MrPeon99]

I just take a razor blade and pry them off the rocks. In a couple of weeks new stalks have already filled in the spots and you can't tell anything was ever removed. After I thin them out I throw everything in a bag and give them to my lfs. Mine don't seem to be to picky about flow. Ones I've had in high flow seem to grow longer stalks than the ones I have in a low flow area.

 

[craig_will2513]

when yoou pry it from the rock do you attach it to anything or just put it in a bag on its own

 

[MrPeon99]

I just throw them in a bag with a little water. I let my lfs figure out what he wants to do with them. I give them to him for free, so I don't go through any efforts to attach them to anything.