Open Brain Acclimation

[chrisstie]

Okay, I goofed. Juggling a few bags for drip acclimation while having an allergy attack (my cats and sneezing for me) is a bad, bad thing.

I only bumped one but the bag my open brain was in slid into my tank. I'm also asking on my LFS message board about this but was hoping to find some advice here, too.

So, the brain was only in the beginning process of having salinity\ph acclimation when this happened. I'm afraid I shocked him. He sat for a little bit in the tank with his mouth gaping open. He eventually shut it and has been looking okay, but still isn't comfortabel enuogh to puff up the flesh by his skeleton.

This morning I go to check on him and theres teeny tiny white curly things hanging out of his mouth.

What does it mean and what can I do?

I have him in a med flow\light area on my sand bed with the stock PC lighting in an aquapod 12g. (he's only 2 inches and when he gets too big he'll go in my 55 that will be up by the new year)

 

[nmprisons]

those might be some tentacles he has nearly completely retracted. there is not much you can do now other than make sure your water is the best it can be.

 

[chrisstie]

At night i've seen his tentacles coming out of the ridge around his round skeleton, but these woudl come out of his mouth?

 

[nmprisons]

good point, still, even if somemthing bad is happening to him, the best thing for it at this point is stability and high quality water

 

[chrisstie]

Here's a pic of whats going on - I am keeping my water good and everything else in the tank seems normal so my fingers are crossed!

 

[edwing206]

those white curly things are the brain's guts i read it somewhere on here, the same thing happened to me when i just dropped my LTA without acclimating it it's better now and healthy just keep ur water quality up and maybe feed

 

[Sangogo]

Chances are it'll be fine. Contrary to most hobbyists I have seen on here, most Japanese hobbyists don't bother acclimating their corals and I haven't heard of this to be a problem with LPS. In fact, I didn't acclimate either of my open brains and they poofed up fine.

Have you tried feeding it yet?

 

[chrisstie]

I've found out it enjoys bearing the white stuff in its mouth when it is hungry and then sticks out its feeder tentacles to. I'm using the butt end of a bottle to make a little feeding pen for him but i only have freeze dried version of cyclopse and soem phyto right now.

I need to get my hands on some mysis