Brown Jelly.... Fml

[theyangman]

Looks like a case of brown jelly is deciding to take a run at some of my LPS. My orange wall hammer and my 1 head of my branching hammer colony are being affected.

Seems like there are no real cures to this nasty little disease either.

 

[EricTMah]

That sucks!

The only way I've ever been able to save LPS from brown jelly is remove all infected areas from the colony and dip the remaining in Coral RX.

Good luck

 

[Kman]

If you are removing the coral shut off all water flow first. Then remove. You don't what that blowing onto your other corals. Or you will spark a brown jelly fire that spreads to most of your corals.

Only way I have also is cut the dead areas out. I have also used super glue on the affected spots if they were in hard to cut spots.

 

[theyangman]

Not sure how I can frag off a wall hammer. It was such a beauty that I got from big als last year. :-(

 

[EricTMah]

Wet band saw is the only way I know how. Cut right into healthy tissue. And like @Kman said, shut flow off when removing the coral from the tank.

Gryphon saw.

 

[Jewel]

Brown Jelly? Got any pics?

 

[Sewerat]

It looks just like cyano covering the head of lps

 

[AdInfinitum]

FWIW...I lost a few acan colonies a while back to an outbreak of brown jelly...the acans were previously damaged which likely caused the outbreak. At the end after trying fragging and iodine dips FW baths etc. I essentially gave up and just removed the last colony with a few heads still alive and dumped it into my QT tank that was running a full dosage treatment of Metronidazole for a new fish. Not really coral safe in theory..... Brown jelly died out and acan recovered. I'm not prepared to say it wasn't just coincidence but considering nothing else worked....if I have brown jelly in the future that is what I would try first...

 

[theyangman]

Well I took a dremel and cut the last healthy part of wall hammer away from the infected parts. It broke my heart to have to slice up this beautiful colony.

The part that was dying anyways has drastically gone down hill. It looks like the stress of cutting it has really had a bad impact on it overall.

As for the healthy part, it isn't doing AMAZING, but it is still fluffy and extending some hammers out there. Time will tell.

Wish me luck guys.

 

[heath]

fingers crossed for you, it sucks when you loose a nice piece..

 

[Jewel]

Ya it does suck for sure, Hopefully it bounced back, Koodos to you for trying to save it. That jelly is something I've never even seen or heard of, WoW learn something new every day.

 

[theyangman]

It's a bitch. It's like RTN on SPS, but on euphyllia.

 

[EricTMah]

How's the hammer looking Tony?

Sony Xperia Z3

 

[Jewel]

How bout a pic of your tank Tony, I'll bet it looks amazing?

 

[theyangman]

My tank is like the bigfoot of this forum. People believe it exists, but it is rarely photographed.

 

[Jewel]

ok then enjoy LOL

 

[Kman]

My tank is like the bigfoot of this forum. People believe it exists, but it is rarely photographed.

To bad. Because if it doesn't have pictures it didn't happen.

 

[theyangman]

Nope. I have no tank. I am just on this forum to cause shit and have fun.

bahahhaa