can brown jelly spread
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Caleb Kruse
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Yes it will spread, and it will spread quickly. I don't know what to do about it though.
redFishblue
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I would suction out all the jelly you can.
You don't want it to touch other corals if at all possible.
You don't want it to touch other corals if at all possible.
JokerGirl
Whistler's Mother
Brown Jelly is highly infectious. I would siphon out as much of it as you possibly can, and then maybe give all your corals an iodine dip to be safe.
After that, I would keep an eye on them very closely for a couple of weeks. Pick them up and physically examine them, including the base of the coral where they are attached to the skeleton/rock. You may not physically see the brown jelly, but if you see any tissue sloughing off, then you should take immediate action.
When my Goniopora got brown jelly, I couldn't physically see the infection but it was losing tissue rapidly. I was advised to give the coral an iodine dip twice a day for 3-4 days depending on whether or not the infection was coming back or if the coral was still shedding tissue.
Mine was pretty persistant and I dipped it for about a week straight before things started to look normal again. I also doubled the dosage of iodine and upped the time I dipped it by about ten minutes.
I would not do that unless your corals are infected though. One 10 minute Iodine dip should be enough to kill anything that may have possibly gotten on them and will hopefully prevent them from contracting the disease.
After that, I would keep an eye on them very closely for a couple of weeks. Pick them up and physically examine them, including the base of the coral where they are attached to the skeleton/rock. You may not physically see the brown jelly, but if you see any tissue sloughing off, then you should take immediate action.
When my Goniopora got brown jelly, I couldn't physically see the infection but it was losing tissue rapidly. I was advised to give the coral an iodine dip twice a day for 3-4 days depending on whether or not the infection was coming back or if the coral was still shedding tissue.
Mine was pretty persistant and I dipped it for about a week straight before things started to look normal again. I also doubled the dosage of iodine and upped the time I dipped it by about ten minutes.
I would not do that unless your corals are infected though. One 10 minute Iodine dip should be enough to kill anything that may have possibly gotten on them and will hopefully prevent them from contracting the disease.
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I lost a frogspawn to it, and then about a week later a torch. It wasn't until the torch went that I figured out the cause. It never got my candy canes, trumpets or anything else though. I made sure on the torch to suction off all the jelly I could though, and I think that this helped to keep it from spreading.
JokerGirl
Whistler's Mother
No one is really sure what brown jelly is as there hasn't been a definitive study on it. It is caused by either a bacterium or a protozoan of some sort.
It usually occurs from an injury to the coral such as mis-handling the tissues and from sand irritation.
I hope John Kelley doesn't mind me using his photo, but this came off his website http://www.goniopora.org
All the nasty looking brown stuff is the actual brown jelly, and this formed even worse after he had attempted to frag the Goniopora to save it from brown jelly.
It can and will infect anything in your tank if given the chance to.
It usually occurs from an injury to the coral such as mis-handling the tissues and from sand irritation.
I hope John Kelley doesn't mind me using his photo, but this came off his website http://www.goniopora.org
All the nasty looking brown stuff is the actual brown jelly, and this formed even worse after he had attempted to frag the Goniopora to save it from brown jelly.
It can and will infect anything in your tank if given the chance to.
mine started with a frag of frogspawn, we got it home and in the tank, it didn't show that the skeleton was broken all the way down it until the next day. We super glued the skeleton back together but the bacteria must have already been inside, it started the "jelly" about 2 days later.
I would think that if you frag something that already has the jelly it will not make it but get worse. The best way I can think to put it is that your corals are sick if they have this their immune system is down, so if you frag it and put that extra stress on it, it isn't going to help it but make it worse.
I would think that if you frag something that already has the jelly it will not make it but get worse. The best way I can think to put it is that your corals are sick if they have this their immune system is down, so if you frag it and put that extra stress on it, it isn't going to help it but make it worse.
