Couple Questions

Binare · #1 10-10-2009, 02:17 AM

Can't speak for most... Buuut xenia looks pretty till it overruns your tanks and you spend a ton of time picking it out of your tank.

Eyford01 · #2 10-10-2009, 02:35 AM

i love my pulsing xenia but it hasnt overgrown anything yet
+1 to what Myka said though cept i rinse mine in the tub not with a hose

Eb0la11 · #3 10-10-2009, 02:40 AM

May as well ask one more thing. I have these little white specks on my glass that upon close inspection resemble spiraling shells. Are these baby snails if you could guess? Anyone with a similar experience?

Eb0la11 · #4 10-10-2009, 02:58 AM

They are very similar to this picture:

http://www.3reef.com/forums/attachme...s-100_1015.jpg

Eyford01 · #5 10-10-2009, 03:07 AM

oh man i cant remember what they are called but they were in one of the hitchikers ID guides i read hmmm... harmless though and no not snails if they are what im thinking, all over my glass and my abalones shell is just covered

Eb0la11 · #6 10-10-2009, 03:17 AM

Spirorbis worms? Is that what you were thinking? Thats what another forum has said about the pic I posted, which is not my pic.

He describes them as worms with feathers and that is what mine have. Either way I assume its a "good" sign to have things like this occur in a 1.5 month old tank?

Myka · #7 10-10-2009, 04:10 PM

Spirorbid worms will be the little spiral feather duster dudes. They are beneficial filter feeders.

I just call Xenia a weed because it has a tendency to multiply quickly. It is definitely pretty, but most seasoned reefers will avoid it due to its tendency to spread so badly. Same with many soft corals.

kien · #8 10-10-2009, 03:15 AM

I have kept pulsing xenia for a few years now because I love their motion. They can grow to weed like proportions if you do not keep an eye on them. With my colony I keep a close eye and prune it back once a month and give away or sell the frags. It is simply a high maintenance coral. If you just let it sit in your tank and grow they will grow fast and start to spread and attach to adjacent rocks. I try to frag my xenia before they get too close to other rocks. I do the same thing with a couple of patches of green stars. I cut them up before they spread to other rocks. So far I have not had to do any tank wide eradication :-). I just have a nice little shrub of waving blue hands that I prune from time to time.