how to control xenia's?

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Originally Posted by fishface

yah, you think that will work, considering the xenia's are about 30x the size of aptasia?

I think so. But the only way to be sure is by manually removing them. Scrape them off your rock (them and the top layer of rock beneath them). Labour intensive, but hey...you wanted a solution

[fishface]

yah, one thing i wont go as far as doing will be removing rockwork...just can't do that so i'll try the clip and burn (kalk) method i suppose, wish me luck.

[Chin_Lee]

peel them off. they are like stickers on glass. just grow your fingernails a little long and peel them off. then you can stick them onto anything else.

[muck]

Or ask at your LFS to see if they ever get these guys in as hitchhikers and to look out for them for you.

http://www.seaslug.info/factsheet.cfm?base=phyllodjako

Ryan

[fishface]

good idea, i wonder if they prey on anything else though...

Originally Posted by muck

Or ask at your LFS to see if they ever get these guys in as hitchhikers and to look out for them for you.

http://www.seaslug.info/factsheet.cfm?base=phyllodjako

Ryan

[fishface]

Chin,
done that before but it's not so easy when it's attached to rock at the bottom of your tank .

[Rippin]

Originally Posted by fishface

Chin,
done that before but it's not so easy when it's attached to rock at the bottom of your tank .

And what's worse, is the putrid smell they give off. After several hand washes the smell was still there.
Ugh, I don't want to be peeling Xenia off anything any time soon.

How about putting some other stinging corals beside the Xenia to sting the life out of them.
Believe it or not, but my zoas+GSP did that to a stalk of Xenia.

[fishface]

Originally Posted by Rippin

And what's worse, is the putrid smell they give off. After several hand washes the smell was still there.
Ugh, I don't want to be peeling Xenia off anything any time soon.

amen to that brutha! my wife came home like an hour later and knew exactly what i had been up to! peeehewww

[Scavenger]

I found that an unnoticed cracked heater in the water mixing bucket will wipe out the xenia population in only a few hours after the water change. Can't say I'd try it deliberately though.

[fishytime]

Only problem with peeling is if you dont get 100% of it off it will come back. Now you have it in its original position and where ever you moved it to. I have also found little tiny xenia growing on rocks that the mother colony was nowhere near. I suspect from trimming back the mother colony IN the display tank(wont do that agian). Just frag it and sell it. I dont even have the original piece I bought and the frags have more than paid for the original piece. I find it easier to control this way. After I cut frags off, if there is a little residual xenia it will sprout up fairly soon. Then I take a sharp tool and cut the rock the little sprout is on. Viola no more xenia(there).