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Which light best for Xenia?

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nakazoru Newbie

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Which light and kavin best for Xenia?

T5 Ho or 150W Mh or 250W Mh?

:thanks:

Funny question you ask...

You keeping a Xenia dominate tank?? 10K will be good.

Minimal T5 loh.

Equipment:

30G Corner Tank with 10G Sump, 2 x 24W artinic T5, 1 x 24W 10K, 1x 24W 20K, 3" Grade 0 sand & Live rocks, Activated Carbon, Bio-home, 2 x Seio M620, Hailea 1/2HP Chiller, Redsea Pro Skimmer

Live Stock:

Turbo Snail x 1, Green Mandarin Dragonet X 2, Blue Tang X 2, True percular x 2, 1 x Algae Bleenie, Clarke clown x 2

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1 x 2" Blue maxima, Red/Brown/Purple Mushroom (Discosoma), Pink Ricordea yuma, A little colony Brown/Green common Zoanthus, Red/Pink/Green US Zoanthus, Eagle-eye Zoathus, 14 Branch Goniopora Pandoraensis, 1 Starburst Polyps, 3 + 2 Branch Frogspawn, 4 Blasto, palythoa, Cheato

RIPs (Since June 2005):

1. Sabae clown (KO by Clarke clown) 2. 1 branch melted frogspawn 4 branch 3. Golden maxima (Ripe the base off rock by me) 4. Algae Bleenie x 2 (Starvation) 5. Blue Maxima x 1, 2 x Maxima, 1 x frogspawn, rics (Overtemp...)

Old 30G Corner Tank.

Restarted 30G Corner Tank.

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I think MH is a little too much for a xenia

Xenias are mostly a hit or miss

If you have the conditions that suit it, it grows and spreads like a weed but if you do not have the conditions it requires, it will just simply waste away ;)

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GARF keeps their xenias under VHO I think

But there is more than lights to successfully keep xenia

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To me, you will be unique in all the world.

To you, I shall be unique in all the world...

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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Keep our hobby sustainable, participate in fragging NOW

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Funny question you ask...

You keeping a Xenia dominate tank?? 10K will be good.

Minimal T5 loh.

:D hahah I gonna collect xenia like a garden maybe add some soft coral.

GARF keeps their xenias under VHO I think

But there is more than lights to successfully keep xenia

absolutely ;) feeding additive conditions and temp

Thank all guys :thanks:

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Try not to let temperatures rise above 28 degrees. Happened once during a warm spell and I lost all my propagated xenias.

Another tip is to maintain your kH level.

Lights above 10,000 Kelvins work well. Anything lower than that and your xenia will most probably turn brown (if it was originally white, etc).

Always something more important than fish.

http://reefbuilders.com/2012/03/08/sps-pico-reef/

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Try not to let temperatures rise above 28 degrees. Happened once during a warm spell and I lost all my propagated xenias.

Maybe my C1000 can solve this problem. ;)

Another tip is to maintain your kH level.

Lights above 10,000 Kelvins work well. Anything lower than that and your xenia will most probably turn brown (if it was originally white, etc).

Which level of kh that I should maintain ?

and how to propagate them?

Thank in advance :thanks:

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