Brain problems...

SugarFox03

SugarFox03

Animal Behaviorist
I'm not sure if it can be saved, but my brain isn't looking too well. I will get a pic of it later tonight. When I first got it, I had it up on my rock work about halfway to the top of my 24 gal AP tank, with a 150w MH. Shortly after I did some research and read that it would do better in the sand. I put it there, and it melted away. The skeleton is showing in some parts, and its bleached out. How can I save it? I put it up closer to the light again, and its looking better, getting puffy around the edges whereas before it was hard and wasn't reacting to anything. Its a green open brain, if it matters. I tried to feed it some krill yesterday, but wouldnt take it.
 
Hmmm. What do you mean by melting?It maybe going through shock. We have ours on the sand in a low flow area. If it is doing better towards the top then i would go ahead and leave it there for a few more days and see how it goes. As for feeding it you can try some Formula 1 small pellets. Our brain eats them. I turn off the powerheads and then just place a few on it, it will then open its mouth and eat them.
 
I will try that, thanks!! I do turn the pumps off, but it just sits there. At least, thats what happened yesterday. I havent heard about them eating pellets, but right now I'm willing to try anything.

By melting I mean that the puffy, green part of the coral melted, and now the skeleton is showing. It looks like serated ribs, all along the outer edge.
 
This seems to happen to so many brains - mine pesonally and others. I wonder if these are harder to keep than some of us think. Yet, others have wonderful success with them. What the heck =\
 
I lost mine =\

I've heard some people say that if you see any kind of infection you can try a dip but this was after mine was gone- and it went quick in a matter of days :(
 
Everything is fine except nitrates, which I have found to be a problem with the tank. Detritus has accumulated in the bottom of the chambers and for the life of me, I cannot suction it all out. I went and bought a new tank yesterday, a 26g bowfront, that I will be switching everything over to in 2 weeks. I will have a 10 gal refuge also, so I am praying this will help. My nitrates are around 40-50, as I just did a water change, but will shoot back up to 80-100 in a few days. This is probably the cause, but I had the brain up high in the rock for the first month, and it did fine. It seems that when I moved it lower onto the sand is when I started to lose it. I left it there a month or so, as I thought it would get better. Then moved it back up to the rock about 3 weeks ago. Here are some pictures I just took this morning.

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This is so you can see where it is in the tank, to the right of the clam
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I'm sorry, I can't help with your current problem, I hope it recovers for you!

I read an interesting article a couple weeks ago. Someone had lost an open brain but left the skeleton in the tank. I think the timeline was something like a month and they began to notice new babies popping up on the old skeleton. If this guy doesn't make it, don't toss the skeleton, you may be rewarded!

I read the article on wetwebmedia if you're interested. It was somewhere in the Trachyphyllia section I believe.

Good luck!
 
Rockit, yes I have a skimmer. I have the AquaC Remora (the regular, not the nano) on my 24 gal tank. I also have a mini-fuge with 5 lbs live rock rubble and chaeto. I use the reverse photo period where the fuge light it on at night. I have 20 lbs live sand and 30 lbs live rock in the display

raoul, I will look that up. Thanks! Thats pretty interesting though, I wonder how that works?
 
I'm not sure how it works, but I think it was a paper by Steven Pro and Anthony Calfo. If I remember right, I found it on wetwebmedia. I think it's the first time it has been documented. It seems to be common for things like fungia (according to the article) but they were surprised to see it in a trach. One of the things they were so excited about was how far apart these two types of coral are, it seems like they're on different ends of a spectrum. So this has them wondering if the corals that fit between them on this spectrum will do the same thing. Good luck!
 
Well, I will add this. About a month ago my brain was starting to look like yours just not as bad. I checked all of my parms & found a slight trace of phosphates. I was told about a product called Magnavore PURA Complete. I bought some & put it in my phosban reactor & within a day noticed crystal clear water & all of my corals looked better than they ever have. Since then my brain has really made quite a comeback, not to mention, zero phosphates.
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I looked at your pics and i think that you should place your Brain back in the sand. It is not good for the fleshy parts to be directly on the rock. LR is very sharp and may cut into the Brains fleshy skirt, causing problems. If the skirt isn't touching the rock then it should be fine. Another reason may be that something within your tank may be bullying your trach. around. Also I think the reason the brain looked a little melted was because you moved it to the sand. It needs time to readjust itself to the lighting needs at this distance. However from the pics it still to me doesn't look that out of shape. What does it look like when the lights are out? I the mouth open slightly and are the tentacles hanging out. This may be the best time to feed your friend. I hope this helps.
 
Does the Magnavore PURA Complete leach back into the water when it is exhausted? I use Rowa just becasue of that. It will not leach back in.
 
They claim that it will not leach back. Again, this is the first time using this product and so far I am very satisfied with it.
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