Maricultured vs Aquacultured

the wild and aquacultured xenia were bought at the same time. and shipped to me the same day from the same company.

i still have the wild and the one from anothers tank. the one from anothers tank is a weed now a beautiful weed.
i do want to add more xenia types. they are a fav of mine

 

There's plenty out there

 

Do you know what lights cause what changes, aside from basic speckling??

 

Any change in lighting can have an affect, even replacing the bulbs can cause a small morph. So whether or not you have LED's, MH's, or T5's you hva a chance at getting a small morph when bringing home from LFS or ordering online.

 

I asking which certain wavelengths of lights cause a morph to certain colors.

 

Oh lol sorry, no i dont to be honest...theres so many different types of zoa's its hard to keep them straight...If i were you i would take a small frag of one of your zoa's and move it closer to the light, and take another frag of the same and put it in a shaded area...see what you get. Hope that helped

 

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Be careful what you wish for here. I had a 180 about 9 years ago that got overrun by the stuff. You might say, "Great! I love the Xenia!" However, I will say that I loved it too until it started overtaking other corals in the tank and forcing them out. Then I needed to harvest it on a monthly basis. I would literally pull out GALLONS of the stuff each month. Let me tell you that it gets old... quick. Especially because of the smell. Xenia releases toxins when it gets stressed and you can't help but to get the stuff on your hands. It is 110% nasty and on more than one occasion I got phyically ill from the exercise. Below is a pic of half the tank - there was just as much on the other side...

 

i have already picked some off my ricordias and trashed it. so i see what your saying. once it takes hold its off and running lol didnt notice a smell though. maybe thats to come?
im so smell sensitive. i notice all

 

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