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Xeniid Systems,
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Xeniid Feeding,
Xeniid Disease,
Xeniid Health 2,
Xeniid Health 3,
Xeniid Reproduction, Soft Coral
Propagation, Soft Coral
Health,
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/The Best Livestock For Your Reef Aquarium:
The Pulsing Soft Corals, Family
Xeniidae, Part 3
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Genus Xenia Lamarck 1816: Small cylindrical colonies (up to 4
cm in all dimensions typically), dome shaped. Sometimes branched, with
polyps only at apical stems. One-shape polyps with varying capacity to
retract, 1-6 pinnules on both sides (number of rows, pinnules
species-specific). Some pulsate, some don't. Forty plus
species, scattered over the Indo-Pacific. Fed on by similar appearing
Nudibranchs of the genus Phyllodesmium.
| Xenia cf. actuosa Verseveldt &
Tursch 1979. Large colonies, tentacles tubular shaped, white with
brown pinnules. A rapidly pulsing species. Western Pacific; New
Guinea, Philippines. N. Sulawesi pix. |
 
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| Xenia cf. elongata, Red
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| Xenia umbellata Lamarck 1816, Bouquet
Encrusting Coral. Indo-Pacific; including the Red Sea. To about
five inches in overall dimension. Tissues contain zooxanthellae. On
import, do look for parasitic Nudibranchs and copepods
(Paradoridicola glabripes). This colony off of Queensland,
Australia. |
 
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| Xenia sp. Branches support capitulums that
bear polyps at end. Stalks smooth, white, polyps mottled, brown.
Indo-West Pacific; Red Sea, East Africa to Australia, S. Japan,
Polynesia. N. Sulawesi pic. |
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About Pulsing Coral Abundance: They can take over your
tanks...
| In places, the Pulsing Corals will dominate a given
environmental niche. Here three species, including the blue
Efflatournaria crowd a tridacnid clam off of Queensland,
Australia. |
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