How/what do you feed your brain coral

[Frenchie]

Last night I caught my cleaner shrimp taking food right out of the brains mouth (and he was reaching way in there). I guess I will have to put some tupperware over the brain to let him eat.

The tentacles seem to have totaly disapeared. They used to hide under a little flap, but now even when the flap is pulled back there are no tentacles. Has anyone else ever seen this?

[tang daddy]

try to feed only with the lights off.... If you see your tank when the lights are off then you should see the tentacles my brains are only active with feeder tentacles in the dark. When the lights are on the tentacles dissappear because they are harnessing light for food and growth when the lights are off they send out feeder tentacles to feed. I gave up on shrimp in my display a long time ago because they will snatch food right out of the corals mouth. One thing you may try is to feed the shrimps in your tank with a large enough piece of prawn so they are distracted then at the same time feed your brain coral. Mysis is too small for my brain so now I feed it pieces of prawn it takes it a whole day to eat but I dont have any shrimp or fish in the set up if you feed mysis make sure to feed about 10-15 pieces they should be able to eat it faster if it's smaller.

[TheMikey]

I've trained my Brain to put out its tentacles as soon as I shut off flow. I feed it either frozen food or very small pellets that I feed the rest of my fish. It's looking great after about 3 months! I run a Nano tank, so I've only got one shrimp to deal with. The trick to him is that I have another kind of pellet food, with the pellets as large as a BB for an air rifle. I hand one ot the shrimp and he goes away and starts picking at it. Then I can target feed the Yellow Watchman and the Brain with ease!