ID please and feeding question

[rcreations]

Can someone please ID this for me? I believe it's some sort of a brain coral?
Also, does it need fed? I tried feeding it some little chunks of silverside and nothing happened.

 

[wangotango]

Wellsophyllia (but that and Trachyphyllia are often used interchangably).
At night when its feeder tentacles are out, try some frozen mysis shrimp from a turkey baster.
-Justin

 

[yosemite sam]

Trachyphyllia (but it's also sometimes called a Wellsophyllia). I had one on an old tank and never fed it anything, buy mysis should be ok. Silversides are too big for it to eat.

 

[rcreations]

I don't see any tentacles extended at night.

Usually I feed my corals once a week, at night. Like my bubble coral, it extends its tentacles at night and I give it some silverside chunks and it pulls them in, instantly! But the brain (Trachyphyllia) doesn't extend any tentacles.

 

[paintballer768]

Did you just add it? Give it a few days. They will be nearly transparent, and will come from the inner ring near the mouthes.

 

[rcreations]

I've had it for a few weeks. It's doing really well, in the day time it gets really big and colorful. I can see its little mouths at night but no tentacles.

 

[paintballer768]

Thats odd. Do you have any other corals in the tank that you spot feed? Maybe you should try to introduce a small amount of food to get the scent in the water, and come back in 30 minutes and see if the feeder tents are out. I saw a brain at the store today that had its out just like yours.

 

[rcreations]

I spot feed the bubble coral, hammer and frogspawn at night, once a week.