open brain

[TheCampbells]

How many of you hand feed your open brain? What do you feed them?

Mine has started shrinking in the last two weeks and I am worried there is something wrong with it. Everything else in the tank is doing fine. Thanks for the help. :unsure

[Shark_Bait]

I don't target feed mine. I add some phyto to the tank every few weeks and mine does just fine. I do notice that is is very picky on the water quality. Check your water and compare what's different. Hope this helps

[Pacman]

I have fed mine shrimp so far, but plan on expanding his diet as soon as I get some more frozen goodies. I have only had it for about 3 weeks, but seems quite happy. He actually seems to poof out quite a bit more the next day after I feed him.

It puts out feeders just after the lights go out, which is when I feed him. I have also noticed that after dosing phyto the feeders expand quite a bit; I don't actually know if it is able to feed on the phyto or if it just induces a feeding response.

Hope this helps,

Matt

[GaryP]

I can tell when mine need a water change because it shrinks up. After a water change it blows up and is huge. I have found that running carbon helps too. Mine are in my softie/LPS tanmk with a huge toadstool and I think the organics the toadstool produces has a negative effect on the brain and that is the justification for running carbon. I run carbon every other week between water changes.

I have tried target feeding with krill, mysids and brine, but it engulfs the food so slowly that the fish just eat it off its surface. I'm sure it gets some from general feeding as well as when I feed the corals. My coral food is a mixture of frozen cyclopeeze, daphnia, oyster eggs, and baby brine. I plan on adding frozen rotifers to that mixture too.