Anyone have some pics of Brown Jelly Disease?

[happyface888]

I am curious to what this stuff looks like. Does anyone have pictures of this?

 

[stevedola]

name of it says it all.

 

[jadette]

This was my torch two years ago. I removed the diseased heads and swished the rest with lugol's. Managed to save about 6 heads out of the original 10+.

 

[Mental1]

here you go -- I lost this hammer -- could not save it. QT'd it, dipped it, fragged it, lost it completely....

 

[happyface888]

Woah thanks for the imgs, how does this stuff occur?

 

[Mental1]

My understanding is that it is a secondary infection, that the coral gets damaged and then brown jelly sets in. In my case, my coral was big and beautiful, maybe too big for my tank and the flesh may have rubbed on rock or the back wall. I really do not know what caused it but I do know I could not stop it. It was devastating to watch the coral die. It was a beautiful coral. I felt helpless.

 

[happyface888]

Sorry for your lost.
Hmm so damaged torches,frogs,hammers can develop that? Can that stuff spread over to healthy heads? From your picture it looks like some of your heads were fine and healthy. I sometimes accidentally damage my torches, like rip off some tips. And I have not gotten that disease.

But I did loose two heads because of a powerhead hammering it. It just melted away.

 

[Mental1]

If you get brown jelly on anything in your tank my understanding is that you need to suck as much as you can out with a turkey baster after you have set up your qt so you can move it immediately. My understanding again is that it will spread and infect other corals. Some have lost a whole tank because they just blew the brown jelly off. This is the wrong thing to do. I did not move mine immediately because I did not know that was what I had. I lost the whole hammer because mine was a wall hammer. But I was sucking the stuff out not blowing it off. My pic is in the QT but it did not show up as I am using a different computer -- don't know if the link worked.

 

[happyface888]

Thats kind of scary, so I am guessing you have to really mess up a lps branching coral pretty bad for it to start developing this?

 

[Mental1]

Well - that is a wall -- not branching. At least with the branching corals you can frag the sick heads and remove them. With my wall hammer the infection ran through the flesh deep down into the skeleton.

 

[Angler02]

Mine developed this as well, I was able to chunk off the infected piece and save the rest of the hammer.

 

[Angler02]

Here it is now different angle though.

 

[Mental1]

I am jealous -- mine was a straight wall hammer -- it did not curve around. When we fragged it, we could see the infection going across the whole coral about 2 inches below the top edge. It was sad as it was so beautiful. I wish I knew what caused it but I can only guess.

 

[Angler02]

No one has been able to tell me what causes it, just that is a bacteria.

 

[FishAreFriends2]

how does the infection spread for branching lps?