open brain coral

[firewill65]

I had my open brain on a piece of live rock for a week...yesterday it fell off face first into the sand. I decided it was probably a better place for it so I put it in a nice spot in the sand.

The next morning it seemed very retracted and smaller than normal. All my water parameters were fine. I tried spot feeding it but the mouth never really opened up. I thought it was then end of my brain coral.

I tried again this morning to spot feed with some cyclopeeze and tiny pellet food....finally the mouths opened up and ate all the food particles on it.

Now it's looking great...just like before.

Question. CAn a open brain coral live without spot feeding? My lighting is only t5's in a 29" tank...that could be the problem.

 

[furfeet26]

i have brains, they do just fine without being fed.

 

[sqwat]

in the wild they go a long time without eating a large meal they eat zoo and phyto nightly but have true sunlight to fall back on.in a closed system with a fully stocked mature fuge full of pods but gand excellent lighting im sure you can go wothout feeding but growth would be slow and you would have to have a very healthy specimen.i feed them when i recieve them in quarintine every night a small bight of fresh caught seafood mash i catch myself and make.i feed till ready to put in display and then cut down to once evry 3 days to once a week and maintain good slow but steady growth.i only see feeding once a day during injury or getting acclimated to tank life after not eating foe awile from collection and shipping.once acclimatted my way they are plump and healthy like they are in the ocean and i have a huge mature fuge and great lighting with 300 par on the sandbed.

 

[sqwat]

ps also i never put radiata on rock work allways a bad thing happens i no so me people get away with it but not manny and not worth the chance i put glue the geofrie on rock work if they still have the stem connected to the bace or find a whole to jam the stem in rockwork cause i find they get reccesion in the sand easly as the move and grow because of the cone shape sinking unless you use some pvc pipe to stop it but that looks like crap.

 

[Finsky]

Trachyphyllia radiata or Trachyphyllia geoffroyi?

I feed my tank Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with Kent Marine Phytoplex, Chromplex, Zooplex, and Microvert along with Vita-Chem, Selcon, and Vitamin-C.

 

[sqwat]

looks like a radiata but hard to tell with this one does it have a flat bottom if so radiata if a cone shape bottom with a small stem or not geophry.they say they are both the same just diff growth patterns but i think they are completly diff .my geophry has big flouresent tentacles and doesnt have to change shape so much to feed and my radiata has small tiny ones and has to turn inside out it looks like to feed.

 

[Finsky]

Trachyphyllia radiata

Trachyphyllia radiata

I just got confirmation from photos sent to Drs. Foster and Smith who had their coral farm check it out and they say indeed a
Trachyphyllia radiata.

I can tell you the bottom is flat.

Sometimes when feeding it will extend 1/8" polyp/tentacles around the inner rim as well as open its few mouth like openings on top.