Receding Open Brain

[psychicmind]

Hello Reefers,

I have a new open brain coral which I added one week ago. I dipped it in revive for 14 minutes before adding to my tank to help get rid of pests.

Two days ago I noticed it has a small area where the tissue had receded. That may have been there all this time and didn’t notice. You cannot see it when it is inflated.

I started feeding it with graded shrimp after I noticed, to make sure it has plenty of nutrients for healing.

Today a snail lifted it a bit from the sand so I got a better view. I’m not 100% sure, but I think it is healing. Looks like a wound that is slowly closing. But I also noticed a suspicious hole near the area.

Any feedback of experience?

Two Days Ago

Today

 

[psychicmind]

I also have an iodine based dip (Brightwell MediCoral) on hand if you think that would help.

 

[psychicmind]

Oh… other than that tiny spot, it looks very healthy and it eats very well.

 

[OceanSprayCranberry]

Any luck? Mine looks exactly like this and I’m wondering if I should dip in iodine.

 

[psychicmind]

I did the iodine dip shortly after my post, just that one time. I do think that cleaned out the “wound”. Since then I kept feeding it shrimp twice a week.

I has probably doubled in size since. I’m kinda surprised how fast it grows. The wound is clean, certainly not growing, and shrank a bit. I looks much better now compared to the pic.

I think it’s is doing very well now.