Killing Zenia

Loverotties · 05-29-2005, 02:15 PM

I have Pulsatting Zenia and I'm getting tired of fragging it all the time.Just wondering the best way to keep it under control.I was thinking to inject it with concentrated calcium.Does anybody know if this works and what do you do to get rid of it!If I cut it it grows back fast.

Loverotties · 05-29-2005, 08:08 PM

Bump no one has any ideal?

wharyat · 05-29-2005, 08:10 PM

I would say kalk water would work (like for aips), not sure on concentrated calcium.

VWD · 05-29-2005, 08:16 PM

I think You may want to make some money and sell them on E-Bay. Let the buyer pay for overnight shipping.

XxN00bxX · 05-29-2005, 10:13 PM

Just cut it, and throw the part you don't want in the trash?

Loverotties · 05-29-2005, 10:27 PM

Vince I've been selling it to LFS for good amont but I'm tired of doing any selling.XxNOObxX I do that but it keeps going back and more,I want to stop it regrowing.

XxN00bxX · 05-29-2005, 10:32 PM

Cut down on lights, and put in some macro to keep down trates is all I can suggest.

Loverotties · 05-29-2005, 10:54 PM

Trats are 0, Phos is .007 .Need lights for corals and clams and I have Macro.I mite try a pastty Kalk in a needle.

tdwyatt · 05-30-2005, 02:01 AM

Kalk will kill it. I accidentally dumped about 4 gallons of saturated Kalk (don't ask, sometimes we do stupid things) into an export tank full of Xenia, it totally wiped it out, even with an almost immediate change of SW in that system. I have killer individual specimens that ended up taking root in the display by using a baster injector (like they use for injecting the basting fluids into turkeys for frying) filled with kalk paste diluted to the consistency of thin toothpaste. It works like a charm. Prolly works with Joe's Juice as well, which I have to believe is kalk made into a paste with some fish oil or fish stock (maybe juice from a can of tuna...) This also works for Anemonea cf. majano

If your tank is not continuously fed, Peppermint Shrimp will eat them occasionally, but it usually requires that they are not being fed by any other source.

HTH

craigGP · 05-30-2005, 02:52 AM

i have had good luck peeling and scraping them off the rocks. have to make sure that you get it all, but i've been successful. get an old pocket knife you don't mind dulling and cut the rock out from underneath the xenia. just like fragging zoas, the goal is to remove a thin piece of rock (which is really easy with porous rock) immediately under the critter.

i'd be afraid of nuking them in an established tank, as the xenia meltdown might be a little harsh on the other tank inhabitants. if that is the way you want to go, put them in a rubbermaid and do it.

craig

Loverotties · 05-30-2005, 08:13 AM

Thanks for your ideals,now I got to get the corage to try!

VWD · 05-30-2005, 09:14 AM

I guess I am glad I don't have them in My tank, everyone seen to have touble with them like some kind of unwanted algae.

Loverotties · 05-30-2005, 07:02 PM

some people can't grow them and the other can't stop growing them.But I get $40 a frag from my LFS so thats not bad!!

ballvice · 05-30-2005, 09:31 PM

HUMM..I better run to the LFS..>I have TONS too!!!! I actually love the stuff..Mine's not the pulsing kind...only it pulses...hehehehehe

Frank

wharyat · 05-30-2005, 10:55 PM

I'm one that cannot get it to grow. Either I have a slow growing species, or it just doesn't like me.