pest xenia?

[camineet]

Hi all,

I picked up this blue candy cane coral from a local shop that had a huge amount of some kind of xenia growing in the tank.

I didn't notice it at the time, but now that I have the coral at home, I can see these xenias are on the base of this blue candy cane coral. I didn't realize a type of coral can grow on another coral.

The shop said it's some kind of xenia, not aiptasia. I've seen enough aiptasia to know it's something else. Some kind of xenia, as the LFS said.

At any rate, I don't want my tank to have huge patches of this stuff like the LFS tank did. And I'm thinking of getting rid of this coral altogether.

What do you guys think?

 

[Sharkbait19]

Does it open and close like Xenia? Might be a sort of clove polyp.
I’d get them off though, as they will spread and could smother the coral.

 

[camineet]

No pulsing whatsoever. Any suggestions on how to get them off? I can't think of a way that wouldn't just result in them growing back.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

No pulsing whatsoever. Any suggestions on how to get them off? I can't think of a way that wouldn't just result in them growing back.

Scrape off out of the tank, rinse in a bowl of old tank water, then put some super glue over where they were.

 

[camineet]

Right on thank you

 

[Sharkbait19]

Scraping them off, aiptasia x, or super gluing over can work.

 

[camineet]

yep, i superglued around the whole base of both pieces

 

[SoFlo Reef]

I use a razor blade for anything like this then super glue/epoxy over it. Xenia is a headache because even when you isolate it, it drops pieces that will spread through the tank. Good call removing.