Brown jelly disease...Help!!!

[eveningstar15]

I received a torch coral in the mail on 10/23/13. This morning when I looked at it, the one side was covered in brown slime. I took it out of my tank and rinsed off the brown slime in saltwater and gave it an iodine dip. Now I have it in a container and it is floating in my tank. Do you think the other head will make it? Do I have to remove the dead skeleton? How would I remove the dead skeleton? I have never fragged anything, so this is all new to me.

 

[garygonzales]

yea it dosent look good.......it definitely got damaged....my experience with this is ...once you get it wont go away it will kill most of out coral...dipping might help... maybe contact the vender for a refund......

 

[SaltWater226]

Sadly it looks like it's over

 

[MechEng99]

It's probably not brown jelly disease. It's probably just the coral rotting away and expelling zooxanthallae from a bad shipment or acclimation. Either way, it's good that you dipped it.

I would place the remnant in a low flow, low light area. Polyp extension is a good sign. There's no need to remove the dead skeleton unless you find it unsightly. Regardless, I wouldn't remove it until the other polyp is healthy again.