I have a colony of pink Xenia and want to make some frags. I now how to frag but what is the best way to attach the piece of Xenia to the rock.

you cant glue them down, you can try to put some mesh on it over the xenia and rock

i m pretty newb myself but recently i have received some xenia unattached from a buddy. I put one of them on the sand bed for a week of so, then I glue to to something. This way the xenia will attached to some sand/small rock particle..

People say you can't glue xenia but I glue them and drop them in a shot glass so no flow pulls it away from the glue. Generally it's attached within 2 days.

Just pile some rocks next or practically on them. They will attach to the rock in like a day.

I just rubber band the frag to a piece of live rock rubble. Not too tight otherwise it will kill "banded" coral flesh. Just tight enough to hold it secure. Otherwise i've heard of people using a toothpick and striking the stem into a crevice in the live rock.

The glue method will prob work too though.

I rip it off the rocks with tweezers and rubberband..

This method seems to be the most popular

" use little pieces of tulle wrapped around the base and secured with a rubber band (not over the coral). Tulle is the stuff that bridal veils are made of, and you can get it at a fabric store. "

http://www.reefland.com/forum/reef-aquariu...xenia-rock.html

Personally I just glue it to a piece of epoxy

i just pull out one of my razor blades cut the stalk in half. with that i get some dental floss and put it exactly in the middle from the top to the bottom on a frag disk. this forces the top of the xenia to split into 2 xenias. giving it a instant split and 2 stalks instead of fragging and only having 1 xenia and waiting for it to split later on

+1, it will stretch itself onto the nearby rocks, and after a few days(well, a few days for me) it'll adhere and you can separate what you want from it.

You can also cut off a stalk, stab through it with a toothpick and then rubber band around both ends of the toothpick to whatever you want to stick it to.

I use 2 methods.

1) just put some rock(s) next to the colony and wait for a week or so for it to spread.

2) If I want a lot of frags I cut of loads of small stalks off, put them in a plastic tub with loads of LR Rubble, cover the tub with plastic mesh and put back in my tank. Then after a few days they have all attached to the rubble.

with mine i cut the frags and then just left them on the sand with some rubble until they attached. or until they got enough sand on them so i could glue to a piece of rubble.

i believe this is a nice method but only in tanks with low-medium flow. for me evertyhing has to be heavy or attached to something or else it will go flying and flowing all over the tank. 1000+gph in my DT is hard but i would also get the container with mesh for my tank or my other method.

+1. exactly. works like magic

Never fragged before but couldnt you just stuff some in a empty snail shell?