Is my Brain Fried?

[Ikarus5150]

I had to say it. ha. .. I bought an Green Open Brain Coral. It was doing well and then 2 days ago I notice that it is not expanding like had been and part of it had gone completely white. Well this next day I notice that my yellow tang was responsible for it and had now eaten 75% of the color. I was just wondering if there was and hope is it dead? If it was dead, would this stony body contaminate my water?

 

[liquid]

Your tang was attacking your brain coral?

Shane

 

[Anonymous]

I think he means his tang, and.. I've never heard of this.

 

[tangir1]

I doubt that it is the tang who is responsible for the damage. If there is a skimmer running, it should be able to take the contaminant out. I would remove it and risen out the tissue if it is totally dead.

 

[Juck]

If your Wellsophyllia/Trachyphyllia is severely damaged, and beyond hope, then try turning it over, face down in the sand and leave it there for a couple of weeks. There are several reports that this can stimulate the brain to reproduce asexually.

Worth a try rather than throwing it out,,, not sure how big your tank is,, if smaller than 55g and you don't have a skimmer then I'd run some carbon for a while.

A tang doing this is a new one on me.

 

[Tyger]

I bought one around january and i had a velvet damsel in my tank that bit chunks out of it; so until i could take the fish to the LFS i put a clear tupperware bowl over it and cut holes for water movement. During this time my brain had time to heal and did so quite quickly.

 

[Ikarus5150]

sorry I haven gotten back here to respond sooner. (14 hr wrk days). I noticed that my brain didn't open as usual and then when I came home from work I saw my yellow tang eating the color off of its skeleton.
My yellow headed sleeper goby had really been stirring up my sand bed the day before and some of the corals dont seem to enjoy it and dont fully open. I am unsure if that is the reason why it didn,t open, but the hermit crabs have had at it and there really is not to much color left.
my tank:
37 gallin Oceanic cube type, 2 Corallife 55W actinics blue03
31 pds LR, 30 Pds LS , Prism PS (not the best I know). Tetra tech 150.(I run carbon all the tiime), 2 301 Powerheads
corals:
hawiian feather duster, devils hand, yellow leather, squamossa clam, branching hammer coral, green frogspawn, green star polyps, button polyps , orange cup coral, and 2 kinds of mushrooms, and trumpet coral.
other
scarlet hermit crabs, blue legged, turbos, red starfish, 1 damsal, 1 tang, 1 yellow headed sleeper goby. and thats it.
I will try turning it up side down the in the sand, change carbon, and do a small water change. for now everything else appears to be doing very well and all params look good. thanks for all the imput :wink: