Walking Brain????

[Faviaphile]

Hi all,

We have, a green Wellso that is about softball sized. We've had it for several months now and it has always behaved "normally."

By normal I mean puffs up and collapses with various stages of digestion. It is capable of increasing dramatically in size over the period of a few hours.

Today, it literally moved a few inches to the left of its normal resting spot! It was not simply expanding larger than usual! We didn't see it move, but when we returned home there it was!

It is only my boyfriend and I in our home- no one else moved it! I have never heard of this happening before, nor have any of my other brains moved before! Are we crazy, or is this a behavior we missed?

I am waiting for it to expel some water so we can see if it's skeleton left a trail in the sand....

Anyone know what's up?

 

[FOSELONE]

think a fish could have pushed it?

 

[chrisstie]

I think sometimes they can inflate enough and deflate in certain places to sort of adjust themselves slowly toward where they want to be (i think plate corals can also do this)

If that isn't the case maybe you have a GIANT snail or cucumber or something to nudge it around

 

[AquaKnight]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9891714#post9891714 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chrisstie
I think sometimes they can inflate enough and deflate in certain places to sort of adjust themselves slowly toward where they want to be (i think plate corals can also do this)

If that isn't the case maybe you have a GIANT snail or cucumber or something to nudge it around

That's probably it, my LT plate wanders a bit everyday. Scares me sometimes when it gets to close to the glass and starts to expand on it...

 

[RobSW1]

i too have a brain that does this.....he would move about an inch a day, back and forth...

 

[Faviaphile]

Thank you for all your responses! I don't think anyone pushed him. I only have a very small fighting conch on the sand bed and I don't think any of my turbos are large enough.

I hear that Fungia and Heliofungia- move around- mine don't, but I wonder if brains can utilize a similar technique.

RobSW1- I'm so pleased to hear that yours does this too- that or we're both crazy!

 

[axia55]

I noticed last week that my Slipper Tongue was moving closer and closer to the front of my tank. It almost doubles in size when it inflates. I moved it back away from the glass but today it is back. I guess it likes that spot :-D

 

[porky]

Locomotion thru HydroInflation

Locomotion thru HydroInflation

I had a large tongue coral that moved around all the time; it would super inflate and when it deflated it would be moved just a bit. Superinflate again and move a bit more, slow process but locomotion none the less.