how to control xenia's?

fishface · #1 08-02-2007, 10:05 PM

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

Mik_101 · #2 08-02-2007, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by fishface

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

WOW 30X thats quite big.

Der_Iron_Chef · #3 08-02-2007, 10:13 PM

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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 · #4 08-02-2007, 10:20 PM

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 · #5 08-02-2007, 10:45 PM

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 · #6 08-02-2007, 10:49 PM

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 · #7 08-02-2007, 11:05 PM

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

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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 · #8 08-02-2007, 10:56 PM

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

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Rippin · #9 08-03-2007, 01:58 AM

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

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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 · #10 08-03-2007, 02:01 AM

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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