Brain is croaking.....

[kuatto]

Wondering if there isn't a little "chemical warfare" going on with the other corals and the brain? What other corals are near or have contact with it?

[vanreefer]

How big is the tank?

[geopod]

Jim,,,,, buddy nice to hear from ya..where I have the brain he is donwn on the sandbed.To his right was a galaxy but I moved him up as the galaxy tentacles were getting close.I found the candy cane sitting on it about a week ago.But picked it up and put it backwhere it belonged.Now it is sitting all by his lonesome self.But like I said the flame was taking fair size chunks outa it before I found her a new home.
Give me a call sometime Jim


george

[geopod]

to be exactit worked out to be 85.6gal withthe dimensions.

george

[Scavenger]

I lost my open brain in my early reefing experience. It was deteriorating as you described. Late in his decline, I used to target feed it at night under a weighted margarine container and it showed signs of improvement for a bit. I believe this would have saved it if I thought of it earlier. Hope this helps or gives you food for thought.

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[Chin_Lee]

it sounds like it has gone through quite a bit of stress with the various incidents of fish taking chunks of it, galaxy tentacles getting close and possibly stinging it late at nights, candy cane on it......... it probably haven't had a chance to get comfortable and the stress is causing it to deteoriate.

[geopod]

I target feed my brain all the time and he eats good.After he eats he gets all big and fat like a bowl of jello.

george

[Beverly]

George,

If the brain has been damaged by the angel, there may be no way to help it recover

[geopod]

ok I am listening to everyone here.But all my other stuff started dieng off first.ie...acros,milli,digitata's to name a few then the candy and trumpet now the brain.I am wondering if there was another cause to the chain of events...besides the angel getting hungry.

[danny zubot]

With all of those water peramiters being very good I'd say it's the brain. I recently gave up on a green plate coral, it was given to me by a fellow reefer and wasn't doing well from the get go. i can't figure out why it was going down hill because my other plate and similar corals are all fine. I wonder sometimes if coral catch colds or other bacterial infections that can kill them, there's so much we still don't know.