Open Brain Care

[mcox33]

I am sure someone has ask this question before but I am asking again.

Is it possible or probable to over feed my green brain he is always putting his tenticals out to eat at night. I have been feeding him abou 4 frozen/thawed out krill shrimp each night and he always holds on to them and eats them all.

I have ask others about this and it is 50 / 50 as to do I feed him every night or sometimes let him go hungry.

50% say feed him if he takes it he is hungry.

50% say only feed him once or twice a week more often will kill him.

Which is it. I love the way he spreads out everyday I would miss him if something happened to him so please tell me do I feed nightly, bi-weekly or weekly.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

Personally, I really don't see why this would hurt. Corals do expel their uh....oopsies. So, as long as the coral is willing to take it on its own, then it should be fine. If the feeding tentacles are out and it doesn't latch ahold and immidiately try to engulf the food, it is most likely full and the extra food needs to be removed (or given to something else to eat).

 

[Sparkss]

the biggest danger I know of in feedig an open brain is the size of the food, not so much the quantity. If the coral tries to eat a piece that it too large it could damage it's "stomach", or at least that is what I read in some reefing online magazine a while back

 

[mcox33]

okay so I should not be giving it full size krill I should cut it up? Is that what you are saying. I know on the day after it is fed it is at least twice as big as it is the day after it skips a nightly feeding.

I know this because I was out of town and it was not feed. (I didn't want to ask hubby to do it as he never has before) The next afternoon when I got home he was tiny (like when I first got him) and did not come out to eat that night either. but the next night he did, as he has every night since then.

The hard calcified skeleton is about 2x3 inches. When I got him he opened to about 3x4 inches. But the day after he is feed he is more like 5x6 inches.

If I don't feed then we are back to about 3x4 inches the next day.

 

[Hef]

Read this thread.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=688187
The guy that started it, Concept, is the now leading authority on brains. There's some great photos in the thread with great info on keeping and saving brain corals.

Good Luck.

Hef