Beautiful brain coral feeding at night

This is a picture of a closed brain I have that really reached out tonight as I was changing some of the mechanical filtration (sponges and floss) and actually a bunch of crap ended up in the display tank but he seamed to like it. I recently found this great shelf piece of rock that I put him on. He's showing that it works for him.

 

Great pic

 

That's pretty weird..i blasted my rocks last night after lights went out and I saw my brain's feeders for the first time. Great picture!

 

Very nice coral. Awesome shape.

One reason I don't use mechanical filtration. Everything is food in the water column.

 

One way of feeding corals (and keeping your sump clean) is to have a small powerhead in your sump that is on a timer. Have it pop on for 10 minutes in the middle of the night every night.

Once a week I would put on a 1 micron filter bag and powerhead off my rocks. Worked well for me.

 

That's a really good idea! Now if I only had a sump lol

 

Actually, that's Tangster's idea. I can't believe I never thought of it. I was always up past the time when the DT lights were off. My powerhead was my hand swishing my sump around before going to bed. ;D

 

+K to this statement! I stopped using filter socks about a month ago and have since noticed longer feeder tentacle reach in all my LPS with them.

 

Thanks for sharing that pic. Nice looking coral.

 

I've got that same exact type of brain thats about 7 inch diamter, for the first month or so it only opened at night, but now it opens immediately whenever i feed. I love the look of it when its open.