Feeding brains

[reeferdude]

I need to know how and what you guys feed your brains and torch corals pretty quickly!

 

[blueabyss]

i realy dont feed mine. when i feed the fish i use mysis and brine for fish. and they get some that land on them.

 

[flamingkingofhe]

what type of brain are you trying to feed?

 

[reeferdude]

I laid a piece of squid on both of my brains and then tried to feed the torch like you would feed an anemone.

 

[mebigloser]

I feed my Shimp, here is my Open Brain.

 

[katara]

My brain is exactly like yours except I've had it 6 days and I don't see any signs of it eating.The first 2 days it was hard yet colorful and a tiny bit receding on 2 sides..now the receding is almost gone & is puffed up but I don't see any feeder tentacles(sp?)**geez,I hope I didn't spell that the TOTALLY wrong way** at all either day or night.

 

[mebigloser]

Katara,
They usually feed at night after the lights are off, after feeding your fish, turn off your lights and wait around 15-20 minutes then using a flashing light, look and see if he is starting to open. If he is not, hold a piece of shrimp or some type of meating food on the brain and he should start to open. They feed very slow, so you might have to hold the food until he gets a good grip on it. I have trained my brain to feed during the day.
Hope this help,
Ron

 

[katara]

Ron, Thanks alot!
Reeferude, sorry for jumping in.

 

[broomer5]

My red open brain seems to take silversides and squid the most.

 

[bioreefer]

I like the pictures of the brains nice work!!!!

 

[reeferdude]

its all good, I got some out of that!! What do you feed your torch coral though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[poiboy]

MEBIGLOSER, Those anemones on the right look kind of suspicious.
WATERFALLER, you can feed a torch. Lay small pieces of shrimp on them when the tenticales are out and whalla, they also like brine, mysis.

 

[mebigloser]

LOL I am slowly working of getting rid of those suspicious looking anemones, dag things are very hard to get rid of. Get rid of 2 and 3 pop up.
Broomer5, I love your red brain, I am having a hard time finding one, any suggestions...

 

[jonthefb]

yeah torches dohave mouths....i feed all my corals the food suggested by Borneman in his CORALS id book. its great and fish love it as well!
good luck
jon

 

[mkengr45]

I want one of those red open brains, I love yours. Is it a red trachyphillia, loboplilia, or what the hell is it exactly. I've never seen any in san antonio LFS.
Randy

 

[mkengr45]

I want one of those red open brains, I love yours. Is it a red trachyphillia, loboplilia, or what the hell is it exactly. I've never seen any in san antonio LFS. I feed my green trachyphillia a fat load of brine to each mouth about every 3 days, I also feed my favites brine directly, and I dose DT's every other day.
Randy