just did first hand feeding of my green brain coral with plancton. few hours after the brain developed 3 small holes in it's tissue. then the hole that's in a middle got bigger and i can see coral's white stringy tissue. he didn't open up this morning and sitting shriveled up. from shriveling one of the small holes closed up. i have never seen anything like that on this guy before. both small holes also had the body shown. the hole in a middle is about an inch long. what do i do?
why my green brain coral doesn't look so good
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MIKE NY
Two Decade club
how long have you had it? water quality? flow? lighting?......if it's a new addition give it time to aclimate.The hole in the middle is it's mouth( some have a few, mine has two) and the stringy stuff coming from it may be it expelling excess zoo. Mine stays shriveled for awhile after it expells too. When I first got it I fed it about once or twice a week for a few months so it aclimated well with krill or large mysis like the PE brand. I haven't fed it directly in years now......here's mine on the bottom with medium flow............
i had it for few months. it has 4 mouths. i know that there is something wrong with it. meybe i just got to see the holes because the way it opened and showed those spots after i fed it. i know that i saw inside of the brain without its skin. it's under helides in medium flow on the bottom of a tank. the two holes are near little moths and the biggest hole is inside the middle.
Wiskey
New member
I had trouble with mine when I first got it, try putting it in a shadowed place for a few days and see if it improves, if it does not then move it back into the light.
We need more information on your tank for better suggestions what lighting, what size tank, what are your water peramiters?
HTH,
Whiskey
We need more information on your tank for better suggestions what lighting, what size tank, what are your water peramiters?
HTH,
Whiskey
i had problems with my computer, i coudn't get on it. o.k. i just did my water change. everything bad is at 0. salt at 1.023 all the time. i add all the stuff as usualy, like calcium, which is at 440, stronium, iodine. i hand fed it for the first time few days ago with plancton, usualy i put marine snow in. i have one helide bolb with blue spectram light and the night lights. my tank is 40 gallons. there is a possibility of some type of chimical getting into the tank, i suspect, but not sure. just in case i've been using different sponges and charkol to make sure that if there is something in my water so it would get it out. is there anything out there that helps to heal corals with tissue damege? is it able to recover on its own? today it's still shriveled, the wound in a middle doesn't look as bad as the first day, one of the small wounds closed up and another small one is still there. now where the wound in the middle, the coral's bone is showing next to it.
i just checked on him again. he is not shriveled at the moment. but i still want to assure his servival. please, help. my temperature is at 80, ph is 8.2. my gree pollips next to the brain don't look right too. the flowers even open, but not all the way. they have not been comming out lately, but i did notice that my lownblenny sits on them often.
sandman450f
Premium Member
Yeah i would say test for and then kick that iodine also. It may not be your problem, but it is dangerous. Are you adding it for Xenia? The xenia will do just fine without it. I had a similar problem with a lrge closed brain, It turned out to be one of the anemones whiched perched above it. Every so often a tentacle would reach its way to the brain. I lost about 20% before I even noticed the tissue recession (was all hidden), the brain didnt make it.
i add iodine about every 5 days, stronium also about every 5, 6 days. on iodine bottle it sais to add every other day and on stronium avery 4 days. i do not test for iodine because i don't get the readings. the shades of blue on a test strips are so close to one another that i can't tell the difference, only between the lightest blue and the darkest blue which are on two different ends.
that was my new tread i put on forum. i looked around some more and somebody else recomended to put it out into the light more and provide high water flow. so, i'll try that, even thogh i hate to move it right now. i'll do it tomorrow, because i'm not sure what to do with anything at the moment.
zukihara
New member
Ah, what would be the reason for "just in case"? Here is a link explaining why you are getting the advice on Iodine and Stronium. I hope it helps.
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.php
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.php
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