Deep Sea Aquarium Maintenance feels the propagation and aquaculture of corals is extremely important to the reef aquarium hobby. Propagation helps to preserve and limit what is harvested from natural reefs in the wild.
Fragging Pulsating Xenia:
1. Locate a larger established polyp.
2. Cut close to the stalk's connection with the rock.
3. Put the cutting into the dish.
4. Take the cutting and cut it half into smaller pieces (a two inch colony would be cut four times.)
5. Take the mesh and cut it to an aporpiate size to the rock enough to rubber ban the mesh to the rock.
6. Take rock and the xenia colony and put the mesh over the colonies, make sure the polyps are facing up through the nets.
7. Rubber ban the mesh around the rock.
8. Quickly take your new colony and put it back into the main tank.
Note: It will look bad for a while, brown and purple pale look to it, give it about two weeks or more and you will have a two inch tall stock and polyps pulsing!!!
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