Just have a story to anyone who has the time to read it

[Kremlin]

ok this story is how my pulsing xenia made it through something that probably should have killed it.
I came home with it and glued it to a frag plus. then i put it in the tank. the next day, it fell off and was sitting at the bottom of the tank, looking like a white gunk ball. so we re glued it. the next day it fell off again and was in a really hard to reach spot. we had to suck it out with a siphon during a water change. I put sooo much glue it was covered in it. not pulsing at all. now, it is a thriving coral and is growing like a weed!

 

[Kremlin]

oh yeah anyone who knows the price of a 1x1 in. xenia frag please tell

 

[PSU4ME]

Xenia are very tough corals, most people consider them weeds! I think they are great for certain tanks but they spread quickly so they need to stay in check. For a nice size frag that's healed, I'd say $10

 

[theplantman]

plus 1 to above. i had some in my first setup and literally would pull them off the rock with my tongs to thin them and any torn pieces would grow back in a week. i loved it where it was, but it was definitely invasive.

 

[Kremlin]

yeah i need to cut it back.

 

[lbiminiblue]

Xenia are very tough corals, most people consider them weeds! I think they are great for certain tanks but they spread quickly so they need to stay in check. For a nice size frag that's healed, I'd say $10

my xenia are now spreading like wildfire, I have no idea what I did differently from the other attempts, but they're growing.

 

[DianaKay]

my xenia are now spreading like wildfire, I have no idea what I did differently from the other attempts, but they're growing.

From all I've read about Xenia....it's not a BIG DEAL getting it to grow. Just need to sit back & watch
The bigger task is getting it to STOP growing

 

[lbiminiblue]

can't stop it entirely, just remove it when it gets out of hand. I think I'll buy the rest of my corals before the xenia completely takes over the tank.

 

[theplantman]

Best way to control it is isolation on its own little island. Good luck though. That is one coral I will not add this time to the tank. I'm not sure which is tougher to control xenia or gsp. I like the green though and the gsp is not allowed to touch my rock work at all.

 

[Kremlin]

my xenia were LR hitchhikers.