Sick brains...I tried everything

[Hethypo]

Hi guys,

I have a bad time with my brains. they are getting "bleachier" and "bleachier" everyday.

My water quality is almost perfect :

PH: 8.0
KH: 9
SALT: 1.0245
NITRITE: 0PPM
NITRATE: 0PPM
CAL: 460
MAG: 1360
PO4: 0.01PPM

All my water test has been tested by Hannah Checker and Red Sea

Also, my brains are getting smaller during the day.

My lighting is a Maxspect G2 110W on 32 gallons tank.

One of my friend have EXACTLY the same setting and his brains are simply perfect.

I tried a lot of thing and do a lot research.

At this point i'm starting to think about a disease because ALL MY others corals are fine.

At 10:00

At 13:00

At 15:00

*MY ENGLISH IS NOT PERFECT

 

[sjwitt]

Try feeding them. They look like they're starving. Suspend all of your flow in the tank. Soak small pellet food in tank water to get them to sink. Use a feeding tube or syringe and gently place the pellets on the top of the brain. Watch as they swell up to eat it. It may take them a while to ingest the food. Keep the others in the tank away from them. The color will come back if they're not too far gone.

 

[Hethypo]

I feed them twise a week with sometime pellet.. or with small shrimp piece.

 

[jenjen]

I feed them twise a week with sometime pellet.. or with small shrimp piece.

Do you actually watch them eat though?

I have a brain who's recovering from some tissue recession and I find I have to cover it with a container and it can take up to an hour for it to consume the food (getting faster thankfully).

I see you have a shirmp in your tank, and presumably some fish? I would recommend putting your brains in lower flow/light and covering them during feedint to ensure they get to take their time eating the food you provide.

Once they're recovered they will be better able to complete and catch food from the water column.

 

[Hethypo]

Do you actually watch them eat though?

I have a brain who's recovering from some tissue recession and I find I have to cover it with a container and it can take up to an hour for it to consume the food (getting faster thankfully).

I see you have a shirmp in your tank, and presumably some fish? I would recommend putting your brains in lower flow/light and covering them during feedint to ensure they get to take their time eating the food you provide.

Once they're recovered they will be better able to complete and catch food from the water column.

Well normaly when i feed them i close all my pump and my filtration ...and I hand feed them one by one and I always stay to watch them eat! I love to do that ...so i dont think the probleme is a eating desorder lol

 

[OzarksReef]

Too much light? The 10am pic looks inflated nicely - are they reacting to intense LED lights? You might try moving them to a shaded area.

 

[goldenfamaliy]

I have had cleaner shrimp reach into the mouths of my brains and take the food out. I now put my hermits in a cup when it is feeding time and feed them by themselves.

 

[seapug]

I'm a little suspicious of that shrimp that's hovering over the corals in on of the photos. I don't like the look on his face. You might have an LPS picker there....

 

[sjwitt]

In most of the pictures they look pretty good. I assume the next to the last picture is two different brains. These are the ones that look bad to me. Have you tried a dip in coralRx? Maybe there's some little critters bothering them ... definitely looks like you have tissue regression on those two plus the one on the right is bleached. I had some bleaching with one of my brain corals and the only thing that made the color start to come back was dosing strontium. Have you checked the strontium levels? Maybe check that and see if you're low.

 

[slapshot]

Too much light? The 10am pic looks inflated nicely - are they reacting to intense LED lights? You might try moving them to a shaded area.

+1 Too much light! They need to be shaded somewhat. They are clearly reacting to the light.

 

[LeLutinBanni]

+1 Too much light! They need to be shaded somewhat. They are clearly reacting to the light.

Hethypo is one of my friend...

I have the same LED and the same tank. All my brains are directly under the light and they are in perfect shape

 

[victor escobar]

My experience in that led's are not really good for trachis, lobos, acans. The intensity is too strong and the spectrum not appropriatte.

The start inflating then change colors then (the red ones) die. It can take one month or six months nut this is my experience, With the geer trachis thigs are different

 

[pwoller]

Hethypo is one of my friend...

I have the same LED and the same tank. All my brains are directly under the light and they are in perfect shape

That doesnt mean his arent getting too much light, Unless you have a PAR meter dont assume your getting the same PAR as he is. There are many other variables that would factor into the intensity of the lighting on the corals such as water clarity.

My initial thought too either too much light or not enough food.

 

[nanos69]

My tank is using LED. No issue under direct lighting.
It might be the flow (placement) and not enough food.

 

[TheReeferer]

I noticed Faviidae seem to thrive when there is some nitrate in the water.