how to control xenia's?

Rippin · #1 08-03-2007, 12:58 AM

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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

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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 · #2 08-03-2007, 01:01 AM

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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 · #3 08-03-2007, 01:10 AM

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.

Renegade · #4 08-03-2007, 02:34 AM

i would be happy to come scrape them all out of your tank if i get to keep them in the end lol

let me know i'm serious

Kyle

fishface · #5 08-03-2007, 02:36 AM

c'mon down!

Aquattro · #6 08-03-2007, 04:30 AM

I had a rock that I took out of the tank, peeled off the xenia, then cooked the area with a bic lighter, and put the rock back in the tank. Two weeks later, more xenia. Good luck....

skylord · #7 08-03-2007, 05:03 AM

Green Star Polyps kill it...but GSP's are just as bad for taking over a tank. If you want some GSP's give me a shout...or I think Tom R is a little closer to you and he generally has plenty.

Scott

mark · #8 08-03-2007, 05:12 AM

Xenia were overrunning my tank as well causing me to trim and peel constantly to keep in check. Got to the point I was just flushing it.

Have noticed since a little after starting to use a Ca reactor, that the spread and budding has stopped and what I have now left is about to where I had trimmed back last and it's even decreasing a bit.

Thinking that it's more the alk from the reactor since it's around 10KH but has on occasion swung higher and my Ca never is really that much, ranges about 350-380.