I know this is a really dumb question, but

bcollie

bcollie

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how can I tell if my open brain is eating? I've offered mysis shrimp, brine shimp and a slurry of dissolved formula one dropped by a medicine (only used for inverts/corals) dropper. I can't tell if it is receiving food or not. It still looks the same as it did two weeks ago, but with corals I know that doesn't mean much. thanks, dr
 
dburr

dburr

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They feed at night. Add a little food to the tank and wait for the feeding polyps to come out. Then feed.
HTH
 
meadbhb

meadbhb

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Hiya,
Mine has actually started anticapating my feedings early evening and will extend all his polyps and open his mouths. Guess I've got a smart brain.
Meadbhb
 
bcollie

bcollie

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Lets discuss polyps & mouths... :D The 'polyps' I've seen look like a smaller version of a bubble coral's tentacles and they were sort of all in a row...is this the brain's polyps? As for mouths...where? I'm not seeing any mouths! Am I looking for something that looks like a ricordia's mouth or a anemone's mouth?
 
wax32

wax32

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In the middle you can see an opening. Look at my brain. See the slot? That's his mouth. I have to turn off my water movement and make sure my hermits, shrimps and stars are all busy eating before I attempt to feed my brain.
 
bcollie

bcollie

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OMG!!!! I have NEVER seen mine do that! I've seen the little polyps appear around the ******** rim, but I've never seen it open ANYTHING like yours does. What do you feed yours? I tried a mixture of brine shrimp & cyclowhateveritis tonight, but I saw nothing happen.
 
wax32

wax32

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Big hunks of market shrimp and frozen formula1 from ocean nutrition. He also puts his feeders out at night and take in reef snow.
 
itchy

itchy

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I am not trying to highjack the thread but I have a question....I am having the worst luck with Brains.....
The first can to me thru shipping in poor health and ultimately I lost it. So I purchased a red brain from this site and it was doing very well until my damn tomato clown starting hosting in it. I moved it and everything and she just followed it around. I think it is dying as well because I see some of the skeleton showing but could that be from just the stress of the clown? Can I possible save it? It still has the red and green membrane? I have not seen the feeders for a couple of days! Any ideas? I thought about using a plastic bottle and cutting in in half and poke a lot of holes in the plastic and cover her up to keep the clown out of it....think it would work? I will try to post a pic if possible. Any suggestions would be great!!! :mad:
 
bcollie

bcollie

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Yipeeeeee!!!! My brain ate tonight! I offered a slice of scallop...waving the piece of scallop around until I saw the polyps appear, then put the scallop up to the polyps. The brain still had other polyps exposed so I offered those a piece of scallop. The brain ate both pieces of scallop...my brain has two mouths. What a cool show!
Thank you, thank you WAX32 for the advice and the pictures! The pictures were worth a thousand words. It was a slow process, but I think my brain was weak from lack of real food.
 
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