Please Look At Green Brain Pics And Tell Me What Is Wrong With Him!

ohiorn67

ohiorn67

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This is my green brain. We have had it for about 3 weeks. Seemed fine, had it positioned up in my rock touching nothing at all so it would get better light. Seemed like it was puffing up and all and looking nice. Then today we noticed that there are 2 corners not looking so good. One almost like it was fuzzy and puffy or hurt, and the other seems to damaged or something where you can see the underneath as in other pic I will post. Please help, what is wrong and what should we do? This is our first thing in the tank since we started almost 3 months ago with something possibly not ok? thanks!
 
bigarn

bigarn

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What are the water paramaters? Other tank inhabitants? I'd keep it on the sandbed with low flow. It appears to be showing skeleton which is not good. :D
 
ohiorn67

ohiorn67

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my water parameters have been ....0 ammonia through nitrite....salinity 1.024, temp 80-81.7 depending on day hour, ph last check yesterday was 8.2. he seemed fine. I have lots of snails, 2 emeralds, a starfish.....pair of maroon clowns and a 6 line wrasse, and a cleaner shrimp, I have never seen any of them actually on the brain bothering him. I did see a hermit crab near him today but not on him....not sure what the deal is, we put him in the rock because we were afraid our lighting would not be enough for him in a deeper 90 gallon..18 inches I believe. we had for lighting 4x65 coralife and actually today got the orbit 4x96 and it is quite a bit brighter, we were impressed. Hoping that will help, you think we should still move him down?
 
dogstar

dogstar

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Should not be in the rocks where it can scrape its skin. They need to be spot fed to get healthy or if not enough light. Finely choped frozen food at night when the feeder tenticals are out or any time you see them out.
 
bigarn

bigarn

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Definitely ...... They do much better on the sandbed. Keep it in a low flow area for now and see how it does. Good luck :D
 
ohiorn67

ohiorn67

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we had him in this awesome spot on top of the rocks where nothing even came close to his skin.....his hard part underneath came to a point, and we put that in a hole and it stood straight up...nothing near it. I don't think it came in any contact with rock or how it could have, I was always wise to watch for this. I don't want to over pollute my tank tonight because i did put in cyclo pleeze early tonight and spot fed our sun corals a bit, and things float, so what should I do? how about a squirt of phytoplankton? should i wait until tomorrow? Will get in sandbed tonight though if you really think it will make that much difference.
 
ohiorn67

ohiorn67

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He is now on the sandbed. Last night found my emerald on the side of him. Not sure if it was by chance or if they have "met" before and this could be his damage. we took off the emerald and put him to the other side of the tank and he ran off....poor guy! Then this morning a turbo was hanging on his side on the hard part of him. a bit concerned he may get too much traffic down there. We got him off, and now he sits alone, lower flow area but down, hope my lights will be enough for him down low.
 
ohiorn67

ohiorn67

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new pics from this morning under the actinics overnight. He seems puffier this morning, is this a good or bad thing? Here are the pics...what do you think, have him in the front corner on the sandbed now......hope to save him!
 
ohiorn67

ohiorn67

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pic3...also seems that when he is puffy, some color loss like the green is breaking a part a bit to some clear coloring. what is this?
 
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