my brain coral has its mouth wide open!

[aquaguy]

My small coral has three mouths, one of them is open and it has like "acontia" (white spagettilike bodies) coming out. I'm really worry about it, I can even see a part of its skeleton if I looking trough its mouth. Could you help me guys to find out what's going on? Thanks.

 

[neurotech]

have you been feeding it?

 

[wasabi]

my brain has white tentacles that surround the mouths, they open every night

 

[aquaguy]

Yes I feed him once a week, the last thing that I did.... I change my power compact bulbs last week, maybe it was to much light for it, it is right at the top of my live rock (8 inches away from the light source) by now it is desintegrating and i don't know what to do, maybe it's going to be dead tomorrow morning

that's so sad... I go to sleep now and I will see what happen tomorrow.

 

[neurotech]

You moved it down to the bottom right? Is it trachyphyllia (cone-shaped base) or Wesophyllia? I hear many keep the trachs down low. My trachyphyllia does ok midheight. It opens its mouth when fed, and often has white tentacles out in the morning. I feed esv phytoplankton. Hey let us know how he's doing.

 

[ReefMon]

Here's my Trachyphyllia

closed durring the day

and open at night

HTH
Glenn R

 

[aquaguy]

My coral still fighting... but it's weaker, I add more phytoplankton today and i'm trying to feed him with some brine shrimp but he is refusing the brine shrimp. I think is not a trachyphyllia. It's a lobophyllia, it has not tentacles. Thank you for your replies guys. Now I think it was in the wrong spot when I replaced my bulbs and I burnt by mistake.