What tool to use to frag xenia?

Hi all,

My xenia is rapidly taking over like kudzu. To frag it should I scrape it off from its base? Also, I should sever any ties to the mother colony I suppose. What tool should I use? An exacto knife?

On this note, anyone in the NYC area want some xenia? It's brown and super vivacious. It's really pretty and pulses. My friend calls it "the muppet-hands coral." heh.

 

i use a razor to cut it to pieces as desired.

you can also use a razor to kind of get up under it and peel it off the rock.

I find to peel this slimy thing off rock I have to kind of hold it between my first and middle finger knuckles and thumb (if you've ever played "I got your nose" as a kid - it's that kind of grip I'm describing)

 

It comes right back when I peel it off. You may have to apply kalk paste ove super glue over where it was.

 

i use sergical scissors for my kenya tree so that might work.

 

A pocket knife or the blunt nosed l1st grade scissors a razor blade or box cutter or finger nails and a good pinch and or a weed eater is good just snip it off at the base and toss cutting in to a tank of rubble and it will attach its self But warning that carp will wipe your tank out I'd never have another piece of it in one of my tanks .

 

yea be careful with those carp, they're not reefsafe and they will eat everything! ....just messing with you tangster

 

hahaha...love the "I got your nose" description peredhil! Thanks for the advice all. Xenia sure does look cool as it waves and pulses, but I can see how it's going to be a pain too.

 

I can't be bothered with cutting and scraping and peeling.
I just put rock rubble up against it and it climbs up onto the rubble, already mounted and it separates itself.
Then I sell it to the LFS.

 

Thats what I did. It was surprising how much I credit you can build up at lfs if they will take it in. Every few weeks I was taking in 3 or 4 frags. Tank near paid for itself. Now I cant keep it alive, but everything else is thriving.