help w/ brain

[rhoptowit]

my closed brain's skeleton is kinda showing. right now i dont have it attached or glued to the rock its just sitting there and yesterday i noticed a section touching the rock started to receed. today the skeleton was showing and the color was dissappearing around that area. wen i picked it up there was huge copepod taking up residence under the frag, could that be the problem?
anyways here are some pics...

tests results showed

calcium: 440ppm
alk: 8.2 dkh
pH: 8.4
Temp: avg 78.8
salinity: 1.026

its under T5 lighting about 15" down.

thanks for the help before hand.

 

[rhoptowit]

i tried feeding it tonight, and it didnt take any food...
usually its gobbles watever i give it....

 

[jadeguppy]

From my experience the pod could be the problem. I had a problem with some ampipods eating zoa frags I put in my fuge and two living on my goniopora munching on it. Having a fish to keep the population under control worked for me. I have no problems with this in the display where my two pigmy angels munch on the pods. If you have a small piece of egg crate you may try raising the brain a little. That may give your fish a chance to eat the pod.

 

[rhoptowit]

thanks for the answer, i was thinking it might be that amphipod. i read somewere that wen the tissue of a lobo is damaged it is practically irrasistable to oppurtunistic predetors, maybe its the same for closed brains. well anyways ill raise the brain a little and see if it recovers...

was waiting till my pop population was able to support a mandarin, might be getting one soon then...