Removing Xenia off LR

[Nandez13]

Any advice on how to do it? I've cut as close as I can to the base and it just regrows the stalks. I can't seem to get the base off.

I started off with Xenia on a small piece of rock but it inevitably grew onto a larger rock that I'd rather not take out of my tank. I've given some away to other MR members and will have to keep doing so at the rate it grows.

Note to newbies: Don't buy/trade for xenia/kenya/anthelias/gsp...someone will give it to u for free

 

[cmantis]

Note to newbies: Don't buy/trade for xenia/kenya/anthelias/gsp...someone will give it to u for free

And don't accept it there is a reason it is free!

You can try kalk paste like Aptasia-X but I am not positive this will work I ended up removing some rock because of this.

 

[acolaojr]

Hahaha I have a giant piece to it takes up a good portion of my tank. Its the size of a football.

 

[canitolindo]

Yea I'm constantly giving it away I try not to cut them though I always peel it gently where it's attached and never grows back but if you cut it and leave a piece there it will grow back

 

[AquaDan]

Any advice on how to do it? I've cut as close as I can to the base and it just regrows the stalks. I can't seem to get the base off.

I started off with Xenia on a small piece of rock but it inevitably grew onto a larger rock that I'd rather not take out of my tank. I've given some away to other MR members and will have to keep doing so at the rate it grows.

Note to newbies: Don't buy/trade for xenia/kenya/anthelias/gsp...someone will give it to u for free

I was warned and did not listen and now its growing out of control! I'm finding little clumps of it in other areas of the tank too. They seem to move like spores...lol

 

[Macropora]

Use a toothbrush to go over the Xenia growing to brush over the leftover cut. Take out the Xenia rock from the tank and scrub it down to keep pieces from flying around and growing somewhere else in the tank.

 

[carlpica]

Yea I'm constantly giving it away I try not to cut them though I always peel it gently where it's attached and never grows back but if you cut it and leave a piece there it will grow back

curious to know, how do you peel it gently? I scrape it with my siphon tube and there are alway remnants that grow back...

 

[canitolindo]

It all depends on where there growing. Mine are growing on a flat rock like a mat so I gently peel and pull at the base removing the stalk completely place it on rubble rock in a few days it attaches itself then give it away. Its the same method I use on Kenya trees seems to work for me i do have some that are in crevices of rocks that I can't really get to but i keep that piece and continue to trim from their once it grows out

 

[Nandez13]

I was able to remove one of the rocks that it was on and used an X-acto knife to remove it. I used the back, non-sharp, side of the knife to slowly scrape it off. Have it in a plastic container with some rubble as well so it can attach then will be giving it away.

I have xenia in two other areas that I can't remove that rock without taking apart my aquascape/moving all my corals around.

 

[ducati335i]

Xenia is awesome! Yes it grows.. Simply peel it off with your finger nails, comes right off!!! I have been growing, selling and trading it for yrs.. People love it.. Last yr I did through away tons just because of laziness.. It's not like unwanted zoos or mushrooms that are very hard to remove.. Xenia is a joke.. So get in there, get under it and boom it's gone!

 

[Nandez13]

I do like xenia just wish it didn't grow at that rate. It may depend on the kind of xenia and rock you have but there's no way you're peeling mine off with a fingernail. I could barely get some of it off using an x-acto knife

 

[Potacka]

I use a set of long angled tweezers. You need a good grip low on the stem and they come right off.

 

[ducati335i]

I do like xenia just wish it didn't grow at that rate. It may depend on the kind of xenia and rock you have but there's no way you're peeling mine off with a fingernail. I could barely get some of it off using an x-acto knife

so grab the bottom, might take u a few tries, then yank it on an angle... thats works too, i never had any issues w removal, might take a few tries but it will work, good luck

 

[debbythefowler]

You peeps are MURDERING Xenia?? I have a really aggressive ACAN echinata. I was told to just put it on top of what I want to kill for a few hours....lol.

Everyone here has ideas how to kill Xenia - not ONE response to my post about communal hydroids. Now if we could come up with a formula or predator to kill those, we'd make a KILLING!

 

[Junbug]

I'm looking for some.. If anyone wants to part with theirs, I'll be happy to adopt

 

[debbythefowler]

I have zenia and Cespitularia. Want some??? I'll make you retrieve it.

 

[canitolindo]

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[albano]

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