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04-10-2006, 11:43 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Antelope, CA (Sacramento)
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help my brain is dying!!!
I am not sure what happened, yesterday my brain looked great, color and such, today when I came home from work it looked like this. I just checked my chemistry, all seem fine within normal limits. the only other coral with issue is my xenia which seems to have pulled in and doesn't want to come out and play. Any ideas? or is it to late for this brain of mine? Is it possible it was on the way out when I bought it? Only been in tank for a week or so?
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04-10-2006, 11:45 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Shelby Township, MI
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how long did you acclimate it? what are your parameters?
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04-10-2006, 11:50 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Antelope, CA (Sacramento)
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couple of hours
Parameters are 1.024
calcium 450
nitrate nominal, nitrite and ammonia 0
What other parameters should I be checking?
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04-10-2006, 11:50 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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brains are pretty hardy, I would just watch your parameters closely for the next week or so. Did you drip acclimate? Maybe you tried to acclimate it too fast? I would have to guess that something is up though if the xenia is pulled in. Did you check for high phosphates? What about the temp in the tank? I am sure you checked all the other stuff... ie. nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, alk, ca, ph, and all that good stuff. Best thing to do is just leave it be for a few days at least, and see how it adapts, my lobo got into a stinging war with the calustrea (sp?). In the morning, it had big holes in it, and the trumpet colony only had a few surviving heads to it. Within a week you could not even see where the lobo had been damaged. Wish the trumpets were that resiliant. Best of luck to you.
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04-10-2006, 11:51 PM
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how high do you have it in the tank, and what lighting do you have?
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04-10-2006, 11:52 PM
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BIG SMELLY MOD
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Livingston Parish, Denham Springs, Louisiana
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It may have been on the way out, But if You have corals in the tank with issues You may have something going on. Brains can go down pretty fast. Recheck everything to make sure and do a water change if needed, but it may be two late for it, Not looknig good.
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04-11-2006, 12:00 AM
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Originally Posted by VWD
It may have been on the way out, But if You have corals in the tank with issues You may have something going on. Brains can go down pretty fast. Recheck everything to make sure and do a water change if needed, but it may be two late for it, Not looknig good.
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That has been my experience, the going down fast part. 2 large ones that have died on me......1 went because i had it in the rocks and stressed it out. I am pretty confident in this because in hindsight the thing was trying to move itself but couldnt due to how i had it. The other one had about 1/4 of it annihilated by a sailfin tang over the course of a few days. I tried to bring them both back when i realized what was wrong but after a few weeks of trying on both it was pretty clear they werent going to make it.
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04-11-2006, 12:00 AM
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I've got the REEF rash!
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Location: New Jersey
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Is there anything near that stings?
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04-11-2006, 12:03 AM
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BIG SMELLY MOD
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Yes they are hardie but when they go it happen pretty fast.
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04-11-2006, 12:04 AM
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Plankton
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Antelope, CA (Sacramento)
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it sits about midway up in tank under t-5 lights. Do these need to be in the sand?
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04-11-2006, 12:20 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Menomonie, WI
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I've always read that they prefer bottom placement in a tank. My friend's is doing great on his sandbed and hasn't had any problems with it.
But... I agree that something else is going on in your tank. Did you recently add any additives to the tank?
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04-11-2006, 12:27 AM
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Plankton
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Antelope, CA (Sacramento)
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daily i add bionic buffer and reef solution, but always have and other corals seem to be doin just fine
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04-11-2006, 12:54 AM
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Just some guy, you know?
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I had one of those that did the same thing, put it in the sand, in a shadow and it should come back.
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04-11-2006, 01:08 AM
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Plankton
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Albany, OR
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I just had the exact thing happen to me. I had a brain in my tank for 1 week. Came home from work on friday and part was starting t slime over. I moved it down to the sand bed, and watched till the lights went out. By next morining it was all dead.
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04-11-2006, 01:57 AM
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Plankton
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Mesa, AZ
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I have one that looks almost identical to yours. Same thing, after about a week it shriveled up. It was midway up on a rock. I was told to put it in the sandbed because they like the sand. After a week in the sand there was no change. So I put it up on the top, on a rock, under a 250 halide, and within a day it swelled up and has been great ever since. It is perched on a rock in a way that when it is open and swollen and hangs over its skeleton, it does not touch any rock. Mine loves the light.
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