brains

[OCDP]

For you brain feeders.. do you wait until lights out and the tentacles are out? Becuase if not, how does the brain take in the food? I want to feed mine, but in such a small tank I don't want to be blowing mysis all over the tank trying to feed it!
Scott

[sumpfinfishe]

Scott,

I have the most success feeding my brains during the day. First I will shut off the sump and feed the fish, this causes the brains and donuts to swell as they can usually tell when I dump in frozen foods. After the fish are all happy and bloated I will remove the light hood for 10-15 minutes-thus allowing the brains and donuts to believe that it's nightime. I then place small chunks of frozen brine or mysis into the awaiting feeders of these corals. Feeding the fish and other critters ahead of time helps the corals in a huge way, as when they are full they are less likely to steal food from the much slower feeding corals.

cheers, Rich

[fortheloveofcrabs]

I don't have any brain's, wait a minute, that came out wrong... I don't have a brain CORAL... But I do have a few other LPS and I feed them at night once they have 'opened up' with a turkey baster. Originally though I used to feed my fish by spraying my LPS with mysis/brine/krill/whatever I was feeding to get them (the LPS) to kind of figure out that soups on, my fish and shrimp would eat what (all of the food) bounced off the corals. I would wait about five minutes or so, and presto, after a little while of this routine, the corals would open up. I would then feed them. The only problem with this, I found anyway, was that my cleaner shrimp was doing too good a job and cleaning out my corals before they could digest what they had caught... So now I wait until night fall, when the little bugger is sleeping and doesn't even know I'm watching... Mawhahahaha!!!! I feed about two - three times a week or so, depending.

Hope this helps!

-Pauli

[OCDP]

Thanks a bunch Rich and Pauli. I will give it a shot !

[fishguyxd]

thanks for all the info guys