How to feed brain

[lerch]

What and how should I feed my open brain. I was feeding my shrimp today and a shrimp pellet fell inside the brain. It seems to be eating it, is this good or bad. I already use Kent's PhytoPlex, do I need to feed something else??? If so how?????

 

[volitan]

This is a question I've been trying to figure out. I've seen alot of people on these boards talk about feeding their brains. They say it's pretty important to keep it fed. I have had no luck with this though. What kind of Brain do you have?

 

[colorado_reef]

You can feed an open brain at night. Its feedeing tenicles come out after the lights go out.
I feed mine silversides. The brain will swell up alot bigger right after you feed them.

 

[kdlbem]

I have a green open brain, and I feed it silversides, or chopped shrimp. Even formula one when I was out of the other stuff one time <img src="graemlins//uhuh.gif" border="0" alt="[U-Huh]" /> I have read that some do not feed theirs ever, and they do fine.
HTH,
B

 

[lerch]

The tentacles on mine are out most all of the time, is this bad??? If I want to feed chopped shrimp can I just get the raw shrimp you can buy at the grocery store?? What are silversides?? I have heard of people using feeder goldfish and just placing them in the tentacles of anemone's and brain's. I wanted to try this but I was worried about using freshwater fish as food to marine animals.

 

[bacchus_fl]

I have a green open brain which I have had for over a year and have never feed it directly. It will open up when I poor in brine and some will get caught on its tentacles every once in a while. But I have never directly feed it any kind of meaty foods. I do target feed it once a week and add phytoplex once a week as well. Since I have owned it, it has grown about 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter. I don't know if that is good but it is the fast growing stoney coral I have ever seen. I have had to move it several becuase of its size. Good Luck!
P.S. Silversides are small fish that you can buy as frozen food for larger carnivorious fish and inverts. I only feed them to my predator tanks becuase they tend to be to large for most reef fish.

 

[keitho]

i have a red/green open brain that i feed once or twice a week. i just take a pair of tweezers and place pieces of shrimp, krill, and silversides on the sticky tentacles. if the tentacles are not inflated, you can tease a piece of food around a mouth and at least with mine, the tentacles will soon appear. even pieces of chopped squid and blocks of prime reef can be used. i primarily use chopped shrimp and krill so that i can avoid excessive waste. they are lots of fun to feed...and, BTW, you can feed lots of LPS corals like that!

 

[discusking]

Wait until night that is when the open brain coral feeds. Then feed it shrimp or other raw sea food. <img src="graemlins//eek.gif" border="0" alt="[eek]" />

 

[dinhouse]

I am not sure what I am doing wrong but I have tried brine shrimp, marine cuisine, and raw shrimp. All to no avail. I have seen the mouth open but I have yet to see a tentecle. I has puffed up a few times. What am I doing wrong?

 

[striker]

At least your open brain is green. Mine is still white with very little fl. green showing. I'm hoping he's just getting used to my tank. I added it last week on tuesday and still haven't seen it open up. Everything is perfect and the other corals I received are fine. I would hate for anything to die in my tank. I've been very lucky so far.

 

[h2o]

most say with proper lighting, you really don't need to feed open brain. I tried chopped krill, silversides, raw shrimp from Costco and put into its mouth.
most time my cleaners, even damsel or clown fish steal it out of its mouth, so i usually feed my fish and other inverts lots of food before i feed my brain and bubble corals. i always turn my return pump off while feeding, at the same time pour 15ml of DTS. turned back the pump after 1 hour. and i feed the tank 20 minutes before my last blue bulb goes off.