[tonyhdg33]

new to the reef seen so im not to sure about corals but i got a piece of Anthelia from a local fish store because they said it was easy to care for
and hardy but im reading it hard to care for. any help

 

[quick_murdoc]

Does it look like this? they might have confused it with a xenia which are hardy?

 

[quick_murdoc]

xenia also come in a white to almost pink color.

 

[Siberman]

These are "waving hand" anthelia :

They don't do well if you expose them to air while transferring them to your tank (IME). If you're successful in transplanting them be sure and keep them on a rock by themselves. I had one polyp survive and now have a 10 gallon frag tank full of them. I prune them regularly in the display tank by pulling the stems / heads off with a pair of forceps but they've usually recovered and grown new heads within a week or two.

 

[aquawolf]

If you care for it properly it can definitely be like an invasive weed. It also has a funky smell like no other coral I have messed with before.

What problems are you having with it?

 

[Jadinop]

Keeping Anthelia can be as easy as keeping Xenia. The one thing I have noticed is that it likes to have some intermittent strong flow that will blow it all around. Might have something to do with the fact that Anthelia doesn't pulse like Xenia.

I had a small colony that ended up covering about half of the back glass in my old 75g tank. Make sure you give it some room to grow and watch for the fragments that it will send all over the tank

 

[tonyhdg33]

it looks just like the waveing hand

thanks im not having problems with it right now but i just wanted to get some ideas and it dosent like when the shrimp run across it but other the that looks good

 

[Loverotties]

Could be a couple things!

 

[mshonk2]

Anthelia ???

I have read that they are hard to care for but generally everyone i speak with says no its easy and it grows like a weed. But i am not one of the fortunate ones that it just grows for. in facts mine is melting down. first three days it was happy and then just progressively worse. i have given it a pulsing flow did a water change dose with strontium/melybedum, iodide, reef essentails, oyster feast and marine snow. everything else is as happy as can be(zoos, polyps, mushroom, yellow pagoda, kenya tree, fish and feather dusters.)also not alot but brown or tan spots on it. somebuddy any clue.

my parameters.
30 g
130 w 50/50 compact

ph 8.3
am 0
nitrates 0
temp 80
calcium 475
mag 1300
dkh 13
just did a water change 10%

 

[mshonk2]

so week and a half ago anthealia officially dead and just wanted the left overs removed so i cleaned up the rock it was attached to and went on with my business. 3 days ago fathers day went to the LPS and they had a deal on frags so i picked up some zoos, candycane, star polyps, mushrooms and decided to try xenia. the xenia is mid tank high intermitant flow and happy so far. but the interesting thing is that when placing the zoo there was one small polyp of anthelia coming back not getting to excited but we will see how it turns out.

 

[Siberman]

That's how mine did. Let me know if you need any frag plugs.

 

[Kwiksilver2136]

I noticed you said you had a kenya. My Xenias did best when they are not near my Kenya coral. I had to move it around several times, and that was the one thing I noticed.

 

[mshonk2]

single piece of anthelia still alive growing but rather slow all tank parameters are good i don't completely understand how the whole colony crashed but now one little piece is growing but i don't care just so long as it keeps growing.

 

[jrocha23]

Do you think that is what this is . I have been tring to identify.

 

[mshonk2]

Looks like anthelia

 

[BushidoCode]

I have a rock completly covererd in wich i thought was xenia but now i think its anthelia considering its growing like mat, mine have light tan stalks wich glow flourescent green at night with light brown fingers...is this anthelia?