Brain Coral question

[SSLVRNBLK]

Hi All,
Any idea why this coral hasnt blown up in a while? Is he a goner?

[brandon429]

if thats the most recent shots then no, a dead bc will show the corallite skeleton around the edges as tissue recedes, looks like random polyp behavior to me.

[SSLVRNBLK]

Hey Brandon,
Do these corals like a lot of flow? That may be the issue I did turn off a PH because there was what I thought was too much flow... Any ideas?

[brandon429]

they like med flow, feeding them regularly is most important. if you were feeding them fauna Marin lps pellets or blenderized mysis and cyclopeeze that couldn't be beat.

[SSLVRNBLK]

It seemed a little while after feeding him a pretty large piece of shrimp he stopped opening... Havent tried to feed him since...

[brandon429]

That is some good info. You will find the coral gets much more nutrition if you grind up the food size first, these brains may take in a whole chunk of shrimp, a whole mysis etc, but hours later/during the nite they extrude it back out almost in whole form, 99% undigested.

Blenderized feed/small particle feed sticks to their mesenteries far far better and will make them healthier over time in my opinion. In the ocean they have access to pods and zooplankton a thousandfold more often than they get a whole live shrimp crawling into them to be eaten or dying right on top of the polyp so their slow ingestion has time to intake... Some feeding is better than none, but you will find that blenderized feed is far better or at least smaller feed items. They are still getting some nutrient off the whole meat chunks but they'll get more nutrients on a quarter waste input for your tank if you'll hand prepare the feed, blenderized!

There is nothing wrong with this coral so far it looks great, these are all just opinions for the coming months.

[SSLVRNBLK]

Thank you.. You are always so helpful...