Feeding Brain Coral

Jason, I'm glad you learned something from my thread!!

About the tentacles, they did nothing when I put the mysis on them. No retracting, no movement, nothing. lol

Suggestions?

 

Did the mysis stick to them? If so, let it be, as the open brains are somewhat slow compared to other corals at getting food from the tentacles to the mouth.

 

No, it didn't even stick. Just floated away....

 

Hrm. Did it grab something during another feeding, earlier perhaps? I imagine corals may not eat if their stomach already has something in it.

 

Possibly, but I've never noticed its tentacles out while the lights are on. :-/

 

This is gonna sound obvious, but did you let the mysis warm up for a little bit? If it's still colder than the tank's temperature, it might not take to it.

 

yep - it was warm...

Thanks for all your help!! Knowing my luck I probably got some defective brain! :

I'll try to feed again tonight and see what happens.

 

I have a brain coral that enjoys feeding. It is being coral-sat at a friends house currently, but it grabs the mysis when fed and closes over it. Maybe yours isn't hungry. My acans and favia also enjoy feeding on mysis.

 

Just one last thing: did you put more than 1 or 2 shrimp at a time onto the tentacles? If they get quite a few at once they may not respond to that either; it's gotta feel natural to them.

 

Maybe he isn't hungry....I never thought about that. Lol I guess seeing the way my fish eat, that thought never even occurred to me!