Controlling Xenia and Star Polyps

[Ron]

Anyone have any good suggestions on how to control Xenia and star polyps.
They are starting to get out of hand in my tank and 50 percent of my live
rock is now covered with them.

Thanks

R

[zoomer]

grow them out on frags and sell them or trade them?

Offer them up to other hobbyists who might have an interest?

Offer the frags for free to folks starting out new tanks or species tanks.

just a few suggestions.



"Ron" > wrote in message
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> Anyone have any good suggestions on how to control Xenia and star polyps.
> They are starting to get out of hand in my tank and 50 percent of my live
> rock is now covered with them.
>
> Thanks
>
> R
>
>

[Mark Elliott]

Riccordia seems to stop the stuff, Discosomas will too but not as well IMO.
A coral with a good sting such as Galaxea or Euphillia will hold it back.

I've recently started using Ozone and Xenia and star polyps now seem to be
spreading more slowly - there may be no link between the two but who knows.

Mark

I've recently started using Ozone and the
"Ron" > wrote in message
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> Anyone have any good suggestions on how to control Xenia and star polyps.
> They are starting to get out of hand in my tank and 50 percent of my live
> rock is now covered with them.
>
> Thanks
>
> R
>
>

[Christ's Soldiers]

Know anyone that has a butterfly fish? Many of them enjoy the yummy
goodness of xenia and many polyps. No matter how you look at it you are
going to have to get your hand wet. Either that or just put other
aggressive corals nearby and let nature do it's thing. Have you seen
the "Tank of the Month" feature on reefcentral.com for this month? It
is a beautiful tank with many aggresive soft corals and when asked in a
thread how he keeps them trimmed the tank owner replied something to
the effect of "I don't I just let nature take it's coarse". The tank
was amazing and that seemed like the easiest way to me and it made a
lot of sense. Just some food for thought. On another note I have a
purple star polyp that started out the size of a quarter (it was a gift
from a (former?) poster here named "Bill" or "Vette69") and now it is
the size of a football! If you want to swap a piece for some other
polyp or xenia feel free to email me. My (now deceased) yellow long
nose butterfly ate all of my xenia thats how I know they like them!


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