Help with Brain Coral...

[deshoyt]

We came home today and found my favorite goby, Sandy, had been eaten or swallowed by our brain coral. Poor thing, just her head was sticking out. When I moved the brain coral to remove Sandy, it seemed to spit her out. My daughter and I sent her off to the "heavenly sea", but I thought brain corals were okay with fish. We feed it with the PhytoPlankton every week, is this not enough? Thanks, Desiree

 

[tike]

For the most part brian corals are safe with most fish. Although i had one eat a hermit crab before. I would sayyour goby probably wasn't doing well because it take the brian coral a while to open it's mouth and push the food to it.

 

[deshoyt]

It just seems so odd-Sandy our goby was doing great the day before.

 

[Kurt_Nelson]

I've had my open brain eat a trochus snail that fell off a rock and upside down on the coral. Walked by my tank to see a huge lump and wondered what the heck it was. After 3-4 hours, it eventually spit it out - dead. They'll eat anything that sits long enough on it, including fish. But like tike666 mentioned, I'd almost think something was wrong with the goby because I've never seen them stay in one place for long.

 

[theJ]

WOW that is awesome, how big were your brain corals all?

 

[Kurt_Nelson]

This big...

And here it is after it spit it out...

 

[theJ]

wow dude thats awesome! i mean it sucks he ate the snail and all, but I have seen my maze brain eat some large chunks of food and all, but nothing like a whole snail shell and all

 

[theJ]

Wow butchered that one above didn't I (and all). my prescription must be running low

 

[curro18]

Deshoyt, I am assuming you are talking about an open brain? I have also had open brains try to eat hermit crab shells and had to pull them out with tweezers. As the others mentioned, the goby had to sit there pretty long for the brain to swallow it. My open brains always fed at night too. I used a turkey baster to give it small pieces of shrimp, etc. I am sure phyto is okay, but you may want to consider something meaty. Sorry about your goby.