Open Brain

[Julie]

I have an open brain in my tank that deflated last night and expelled something out of it's numerous mouths.
Any idea what that would be?  Is it trying to reproduce?

Julie

[DARKPHREAK]

It pooped? Mine used to expell stuff daily but I fed it 3-4 times a week.

[Julie]

Did you feed it mysis?  I don't feed mine.
Could it be picking up nutrients from the water because I don't skim the tank all the time?

Julie

[DARKPHREAK]

IMO they need to be fed. Mine would eat mysis and flake anything really but you need to feed it. They dont take food from light so... whatever it "might" be picking up from the water, "nutrients", is too small to keep it in good health.

[pegasus]

Thanks to Google (images) I found out that open brain is a coral and not a road kill, but I'm still looking for OCD and many more.  

[Julie]

Oh dear pegasus, imagine finding one of those on the road. blah.
OCD stands for obsessive compulsive disorder.

Julie

[PowderBlueTang]

Hi Julie try feeding the brain when the lights are out for an hour and their tenicales are out and feed mysis, thats when I feed mine. Mine is the same colour as yours, I only feed 3 times a week and he is doing great.

[Julie]

Thanks for the tips.   I'll purchase a turkey baster, or do you just set the mysis on the mouths with your hand?  I've never fed the corals;  but I've observed polyps and a ricordia eat shrimp.
Julie

[PowderBlueTang]

If your brain is small enough to fit inside a 2 litre plastic pop bottle, cut off the bottom and put on top of the brain and feed through the top of the bottle with turkey baster or syringe.When cover this will stops shrimp, crabs and fish from bothering and stealing their food.They grab food with their tentacles so when lights are out wait for their tentacles to come out and it's time to feed them.
Hope this helps Len

[gvv]

Thanks to Google (images) I found out that open brain is a coral and not a road kill...

:lol: Some names can be pretty scare  :lol:

[Mettle]

Heh. I put two and two together... 'Something random' and 'post by Julie'. Must be a coral!  :lol:

Looks very cool. My dad would go crazy for it, I think. He's in love with salt water since I took him to Big Al's the other day. Now he's been bugging me on when we're going to go back, heh.

Salt water is so interesting.

Anyone wanna donate stuff to me so I can turn one of my tanks into a salt water setup?  A protein skimmer and a bunch of live rock would be fantastic! :lol:

[rockgarden]

If your brain is small enough to fit inside a 2 litre plastic pop bottle. ...
Hope this helps Len

I'm not sure if helped Len but sure made my day!!!

Ron

[PowderBlueTang]

Ron it' is funny actually when sometimes you reread what you wrote.
                                                    Cheers Len

[FishPassion]

Julie I have a red swollen brain in one of my tanks and every morning before any lighting comes on the tentacles are fully extended as are the bubble corals and a few others. Len is right spot feeding is a necessity otherwise the shrimp and all the other greedy inverts and shrimp have a feast. I have 2 sun corals aka tubastrea and these have to be fed every second day by hand as well they are an absolutely gorgeous coral real eyecatchers but at the same time very demanding because they have to be fed. Im waiting for Darkphreak to comment on this LOL.

[oenology]

Oh dear pegasus, imagine finding one of those on the road. blah.
OCD stands for obsessive compulsive disorder.

Julie

Or in my world OCD = osteochondrose desicans (sp?) ie sequestered cartilage in a joint

[Insane79]

Or in my world OCD = osteochondrose desicans (sp?) ie sequestered cartilage in a joint

or ossicular chain dislocation  :wink:

Did you ever figure out what it was that the coral spat out?

[PowderBlueTang]

That how they poop! or release anything they haven't digest and want to expell it out.

[Julie]

Picture of my red open brain after feeding mysis:

note in pic:  little starfish on bottom left and red legs in back

Julie

[PaleoFishGirl]

That is SO COOL.