Dying brain

[mathias]

I have a brain coral that is dying off... the right corner is turning white... is there anything I can do about it? or just watch it slowly die?

[dan]

you could bring it to my house and bring it back to life for you. i use lots of light and ESV- BIONIC.

[scuba_steveo]

that's not a bad idea

[don-n-sa]

hey Dan,

how are you dosing your b-ionic...I know that you use alot more than I do, and I sometimes forget...just wondering

[mathias]

I have the 4x65w pcs and I was told that would be enough... I guess what I need is some info on really how to take care of this guy.....

[ratboy]

What species or variety of brain do you have? Open brains come from turbid waters and do better in lower light, favites and other smaller polyped brains tend to do better with brighter light and more current. Ive brought back one of favites many many times from other coral stings. Open brains I havent had as much luck with recovery.

-ERik

[mathias]

the open type its big and red :)

got it at the new fish store on nacadoches....

[ratboy]

Wow-- Ill bet its nice. If its still accepting food you probably have a decent chance for recovery. You lighting is probably not the issue unless your bulbs are super old.

[mathias]

nope not old about 2 months.... what type of food should I feed it? and where from?

[NaCl_H2O]

How deep is your tank? I have an open brain (gold/green) under 4x96w PCs, he is about 6" from the water surface and thriving! I also dose B-Ionic, but not at near the rate Dan does (I think he drinks the stuff too :o )

[Gator]

i heard dan likes to use it as bubble bath... :-D

[mathias]

so bi-onic is the food for these things or what?

[Gator]

i dont think it is the food, but majority of corls use the calcium to grow up big and strong, you can get a shrimp and cut it up and feed a little portion to the brain it is cool to watch

[GaryP]

Open brains will eat any small meaty type foods such as brine shrimp.

Mine isn't doing to well either. I have had it for years and can't figure out what is wrong. I have increased the current in the tank recently and I'm afraid that is what the problem is.

Gary

[mathias]

well I put it lower in the tank... where there is less current.... maybe that may help... also Im go get some brine shrimp and see what happens...

[pilot_bell777]

I used to feed mine small Krill.....it was really neat to watch it eat it. At night when you see the tenticles out...pass a little thawed krill over them and it will close up on it like a clam.......I feed mine about every three days. It was on the bottom under 260watt lights in a 75 gallon and it did really good. Kind of sensitive to other corals in their area so make sure that nothing else is really around it. They like good cal. levels too. Get them too low and it will shrivel up like an old man.