Will an Open Brain recover?

[Rue]

I've had my little Open Brain Coral for a week, and on one edge the skeleton is showing through and it looks like more decay is in progress...

...I'm going to move it into a bit more shade and see if I can feed it nightly...

I was wondering what the odds are that it will recover? Has anyone had any luck?

Water parametres: Phosphate, Nitrite, Nitrate all 0. Calcium is fine. Alkilinity might be a bit low at 7-8, so I'll be adding the liquid. Flow isn't too high where the coral is either...

 

[2OceanLovers]

I had one that was electrocuted along with my tank and it recovered better than it was before it was hurt. It just takes some good old tlc. Hope it gets better.

 

[Rue]

...maybe it's a SuperBrain now...lol...

I hope it recovers too...I was feeling so guilty...

 

[Rue]

My ailing Brain ate last night!

First I defrosted 2 cubes of mysis (I feed any extras to the freshwater fish)...and - nothing doing...no tentacles...nothing...

I was disappointed...but went ahead and fed the mysis to everyone else...

AFTER I had cleaned everything up...guess what? I take a final look and he had his tentacles out...lol...so I defrosted another cube of mysis and stuffed him full...

I hope if he's eating it's a good sign!

 

[2OceanLovers]

That is a great sign. Just keep up with that and it will recover in no time. Keep up on waterchanges and great params too. That will help a lot.

 

[Rue]

Thanks...it didn't eat again until this afternoon...I was hoping it would eat daily...but I suppose it's still a good sign if it's eating at all!

 

[AquaKnight]

Good luck with recovery. One thing I found is to try sinking pellets. I'm in a similar sitution, a St. Thomas anemone mushroom fell onto my brain and stung it pretty good. I try mysis and it would only take it when the tenticles were out. So I tried my pellets, New Life Spectrum 1mm sinking, and it gobbles those up with out even extending the tenticles.

 

[Rue]

Thanks! That's good to know! I never even would have considered that!

I'll let you know it it takes pellets!

 

[kingfisher62]

Any pics?

 

[Rue]

Yes and no...I have a pic from the day I bought it...but not a recent one...

...I had to buy a new laptop and still haven't switched everything over or found new software that I like...I'm used to Corel Photo-paint...lol...

 

[Rue]

...mucked about and got some pics...sorry though...not very good...

...but you can see the damage on the left side...and you can also see that it's eating again today...I had just fed it some mysis...

 

[Musho3210]

are you feeding it every night?

 

[Rue]

...not quite every night...it's not always open...

...I did try feeding it pellets...but nothin' doin'...it's a fussy eater...

 

[gh0st]

As long as the tissue around the wounded area isn't falling apart and peeling away from the skeleton, it should recover.

Also watch out for bacterial infections, it would look like a brown slime build up, cleaning that off with a gentle syphon and possibly coral dips would help with that if it pops up.

 

[Rue]

More good advice! I wouldn't have thought of doing a dip either! Thank you very much!

 

[kingfisher62]

It looks like what I have Rue. I think pulling it out of the shadows would help yours . At night mine deflates and looks terrible but it really puffs up in during the day .I think yours will come around . Mine seems very hardy. I had a small crash over a month ago when I was on vacation. the tank just got too hot. My brain shrunk and was real pale for a while now it is back to normal.

 

[Rue]

Oh wow! It's beautiful!

I had mine in full light...but someone suggested to put it in the shade until it start to obviously recover...which is why I pushed it further back under the overhang...

Apparently they can get light shock? But yes...I'll need to pull him back out...wonder if I should do it now, or wait a bit longer?

 

[kingfisher62]

I am no expert ,I have only started with corals 10 months ago but it seems logical to me that the coral will need food/energy to repair itself and light will provide that.
what type of lighting do you have? If it is PC I don't think you have to concern yourself ,especially if it is on the sandbed. MH lighting is a different story.
I would start inching it out and see how it fares.
How has it been looking ? Any more recession or improvement?
best of luck and keep us posted!