how to control xenia's?

Scavenger · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 08-03-2007, 02:36 AM

c'mon down!

Aquattro · #4 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 · #5 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

fishface · #6 08-03-2007, 05:27 AM

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Originally Posted by skylord

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

i've got gsp's and don't seem to have any problem with them...slow growers in my tank.

bv_reefer · #7 08-03-2007, 07:22 AM

-Great i put my xenia on the very top of my nicest piece of live rock that makes an arch

but it's real nice always growing and feeding and ain't causing
any problems so w/e, i'll leave him

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.