open brain question RE: feeding?

[tomato clown]

I have a medium yellow/green open brain coral, I knew that at night there would he antenni that come out to collect food, but my question is in reguards to the mouth section.....what kind of food is good for feeding directly and, when they have a full mouth do they alwats look as if they puff up?
Dan

 

[jtoliver]

I've had one for 1.5 years and I have never directly fed it anything and it is growing and thriveing. All it really needs is light and I'm sure that it filters some odds and ends out of the water.

 

[h2o]

I fed mine chopped silversides by tucking it in its mouse (not too hard) after light turned off.

 

[kdlbem]

I feed mine chopped silversides, chopped shrimp, even thawed formula one(once). Just put it next to it's tentacles, and it will grab the food and and close around it.
HTH,
B

 

[90galreef]

Open brains are filter feeders, not carnivores. Keep the calcium levels adequate and add iodine once a week to make your open brain spread all over the tank! I've had one for 18 months, and it looks fantastic!

 

[adrian]

Most corals are canivores The feeders your seeing at night are used to capture planktonic life in the wild like zooplanton, they also have sweeper tentacles that can aid in the capture of food, the oral opening will gobble up most any fleshy matter that falls in it. I feed mine shrimp, krill, and silversides when the darn LFS gets off their butts and orders some more HTH
[ December 20, 2001: Message edited by: Adrian ]

 

[marley]

I have two open brains and aside from the regular food i give all my corals, i gice it frozen brine shrimp once a week. When i do this i let it sit in a small cup of tank water. Once it defrosts, i take a medicine dropper and feed it directly to my hard corals. Make sure you turn off you powerheads. Sometimes it is still a pain for it to get to its mouth though.

 

[predator]

I'v got one open brainand two lobo brains and they all eat krill,copped up siversides and on occasion some brine shrimp.They are doing great and have been since I got em'.

 

[tomato clown]

Thanks all.
Adrian,
Reason I was asking is because when I tossed in a few shrimp pellets, 2 ended up in the brain, I had to run outside for something, and when I got back they were gone, and the 1 section was all puffed up.
At least I know I didn't inadvertantly hurt it, and stumbled upon a good thing.
Dan

 

[ballyhoe]

I have had my open brain for about 5 month's
and I just chop up some silver sides turn the filters and powerheads and place the food directly in the mouth or next to it he seems to love it.