Adams magic

He gave me some xenia at the last meeting. It was several frags. I placed them spiratically in the tank. Even in my sump. I have tried several other times to have it survive, but it always failed. FINALLY I get some to live. 6 months+ with LS and LR from existing tanks and alot of work and I have some xenia.  Yea I'll  later but for me it's an acomplishment. What sux is I got two good peices acting healthy, a small frag that wasn't gonna do it anyways, one peice that was kinda plit weird, and one reasonable chunk in my sump that was looking lacking for light. So I am watching the good peices for a few days, then one morning the CCstarfish I saw close to one of the bigger heads the night before was having a great breakfast..........  well there goes that, must be a sign to setup my fish only headboard. So I go and upgrade my lighting in my sump, and the same weekend tear into the tank, sump for LR and LS that has been seeding for a while. well the weird split peice was looking bleak before but is now gone, I lost the sump peice somewhere in moving LS or it died and disapeared a couple days prier. I found half of the weird split peice under a rock on the bottom. I tried to put it close to the light, but it looks lost. but ONE peice has attached and seems happy.

It's all ADAM.....

Aren't new guys great

Hey, I didn't know Cambomba grew in salt water.

I feel almost the same Sky.  Everyone says their Xenia grows like a weed.  I've had silver tip in my tank for 4 months and its finally to the point of growing more than just the couple stalks I put in.  It'll be fragging time in a month or so.

As for Pom Pom, well the 3 pieces I have have been no more than frags for months.  They look healthy, but have very little growth.

My understanding is that Xenia feed almost exclusively off light.  Or rather off the byproducts of their zooanthelia which feed off light.

Does anyone know if this is correct?

I added some new brine and the fingers seemed to pull in, would they be feeding?

I do remember the descution on improdigals(or however you spell it) thread. But there was no good pictures. So I figured I'd start another thread with good pics.

I added freshly hatched brine shrimp..... New

Oh and mark... I knew plastic plants in a salt water tank would bug you.

 But here is the thread on my puple algae if you want to critisice that thread this one is on xenia alone...

http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2878& PN=0&TPN=2

the xenia went in for a couple minuts(typo) and then came out. not all the fingers retracted, just some.

Plus I thought I heard that coral like baby brine.......

I think Xenia eats.  However, I am definately in the minorty here, as even most coral experts say it doesn't.  So it is quite possible, and probable, that I am wrong.  But I still think it eats.  I just don't think it feeds much, and uses much more photosynthesis.  So feeding xenia is kind of a waste to me.  I say just put it under about 12,000 watts of halide and it will grow right out of the tank and grow all over your living room.

Adam

Oh yah it's pricey.  No arguement here.  And I would say you could get 400 watts for $400 so I'll say 12,000 watts for no more than $12,000.

Adam