Michelle L
New member
I posted this in my club forum but no one had any suggestions, so I moved it here. Can anyone help me?
I was given what I think is a maze brain that had been sitting in complete darkness with no flow for about a week to week and a half. When I first got it, it had hints of green, but I don't even really know what it's supposed to look like when it's healthy. Initially I wasn't thinking in terms of it being in the dark for so long, and I placed it midway in the tank under 400 watt lights (tank is 30" deep) and within days it promptly lost color and turned brown. Ooops.
I moved it to the bottom of the tank in a semi-shaded area and over the past few weeks, the folds of flesh began looking more defined, deeper, and healthier. It has started getting green coloring back. Overall it looks much better.
I have noticed the past two nights that it gets a strange cotton looking white stuff coming out from between the folds of flesh in the middle area of the coral. It doesn't look like what I think feeder tenticles should look like. The stuff doesn't look slimy, it looks more fibrous. I would take a picture, but it pretty much goes away when the lights are on. I can sometimes still see hints of it in the daylight but probably not enough to get a pic. I have also noticed that where there are three (kind of) divisions of the body of the coral, last night they were kind of opened up.
What's going on with it? Is it eating? Is it dying? Is it expelling something?
Also, should I start to move it into higher light now or should I leave it in a more shaded area on the bottom of the tank? It's hard for me to research it when I don't even know for sure what it is.
I was given what I think is a maze brain that had been sitting in complete darkness with no flow for about a week to week and a half. When I first got it, it had hints of green, but I don't even really know what it's supposed to look like when it's healthy. Initially I wasn't thinking in terms of it being in the dark for so long, and I placed it midway in the tank under 400 watt lights (tank is 30" deep) and within days it promptly lost color and turned brown. Ooops.
I moved it to the bottom of the tank in a semi-shaded area and over the past few weeks, the folds of flesh began looking more defined, deeper, and healthier. It has started getting green coloring back. Overall it looks much better.
I have noticed the past two nights that it gets a strange cotton looking white stuff coming out from between the folds of flesh in the middle area of the coral. It doesn't look like what I think feeder tenticles should look like. The stuff doesn't look slimy, it looks more fibrous. I would take a picture, but it pretty much goes away when the lights are on. I can sometimes still see hints of it in the daylight but probably not enough to get a pic. I have also noticed that where there are three (kind of) divisions of the body of the coral, last night they were kind of opened up.
What's going on with it? Is it eating? Is it dying? Is it expelling something?
Also, should I start to move it into higher light now or should I leave it in a more shaded area on the bottom of the tank? It's hard for me to research it when I don't even know for sure what it is.
