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Post your Brains
I'm interested to see some of your larger brain corals. Lobos and Trachies in particular.
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ABout 6-7" across
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Not a good pic but its a big brain. |
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Reefkeeper - (ref-ke-per) n: Individual obsessed with placing disturbing amounts of electricity and seawater in close proximity for the purpose of maintaining live coral reef organisms. Last edited by corals b 4 bills; 06/06/2007 at 11:49 AM. |
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Here's mine - when it is retracted it's about four inches, and when it fully expands it's close to six or seven inches across.
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Coral beauty, 2 skunk clowns, Melanarus Wrasse, scarlet hermits, blue leg hermits, turbo snails, 3 types of mushrooms, colt coral, unknown leather, green star polyps, Maze brain, favia, green closed brain, scolymia, hammer coral, bubble coral, 2 color morphs candycane coral, green long tenticle plate, glove polyps, 5 types of zoas, orange monti, galaxia coral, sun coral, frogspawn, hammer coral |
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my little red one, love this guy!
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here is one of my lobos
here is a couple mor of my brains |
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rainbow lobo....
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i'm jess and i'm an addict! |
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Quote:
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Nice brains guys! Here are a few on mine. Sorry for the crappy pics!
Two T. radiata Orange Lobo Orange T. radiata (have to look close for it!) New guy on the block Thanks for looking, Mark |
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Not really that large, but here are mine:
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here is an updated shot of my green and purple trachyphyllia radiata
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Brain Question
You all obviously have excellent success keeping brains, what do you feel to be the most important things you do to help your brains flourish? I have a trachyphyllia that I've had for a month now that has never been as open as it was at the LFS. I put the brain directly under the light about half way up the tank when I first got it. It was really extended the first 3 days or so, and then slowly receded over the next week. I read a few posts about brains being sensitive to bright light coming from LFS tanks, so I put it in a shady spot in the tank. It showed a little expansion at first, but this hasn't increased any in the last two weeks. Any ideas? My parameters are:
Amm: 0 ppt Nitrites: 0 ppt Nitrates: < 5 ppt Phosphates: < 0.1 ppt Specific Gravity: 1.025 Alk: ~ 3.0 meq/L Ca: 380 ppm My water source is RO/DI, never checked TDS, but filters are < 4 months old. The tank is 10 gallons w/ 5 gallon sump. Lighting is a 96W 50/50 CF bulb, also < 4 months old. The tank has been up around 4 months. Filtration is protein skimmer. I feed fish (bi-color blenny and maroon clown) once a day with formula 2 flake food or frozen brine shrimp, and corals every 3 days w/ Marine Snow or Coral Vital. I have a number of soft corals (zoanthid, palythoa, mushrooms, cabbage leather, toadstool leather, xenia, kenya tree coral) that are thriving in this tank.
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Lobo |
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