salt0727
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I picked up a very cool frag of white/clear looking frogspawn today. It had flatworms so the guy at the lfs said he would give us a bag of ro water with some dip in it for a few min since we had run out of dip at home. I got home and did that and with a turkey baster blew on it but I guess I did it too much because when I put it in the tank it showed no tissue and looks dead. I will try getting a photo of it but just wanted to see if you guys think it really is dead since I found this on another thread and it did have mucus on it when I first put it in the tank:
If you do have brown jelly disease, take the coral out of the aquarium and give it a fresh water bath for about 3-4 minutes, blowing it off with the pipette again, then give it a quick dip in Lugol's, rinse and replace in your aquarium. Now for the possible good part - watch for the coral heads to slime a clear mucus. This is a good sign if it does - it means it's still alive just withdrawn. If it doesn't slime, then I have severe doubts about it's survivability.
Continue to blow off any residues and resurgent brown jelly disease three or four times daily - very important!
If it does slime after the freshwater dip, put in a steady current in the aquarium and repeat the fresh water dip daily for 3 days, then after 3 days put it in a bowl of saltwater from your aquarium just covering it, then sprinkle neomycin powder (available at the LFS for treating fish, but it works on corals too) over it (about 1 of the little spoons that come with it full) Let set for 10 to 15 minutes then rinse in fresh saltwater and replace in your aquarium. you can repeat this in 2 days if you think it is needed.
If everything goes okay he will start peeking out soon. As soon as he does feed him! Oysterfeast is a good starter meal working up to brine shrimp. Feed every day he's out.
sorry for the long post
If you do have brown jelly disease, take the coral out of the aquarium and give it a fresh water bath for about 3-4 minutes, blowing it off with the pipette again, then give it a quick dip in Lugol's, rinse and replace in your aquarium. Now for the possible good part - watch for the coral heads to slime a clear mucus. This is a good sign if it does - it means it's still alive just withdrawn. If it doesn't slime, then I have severe doubts about it's survivability.
Continue to blow off any residues and resurgent brown jelly disease three or four times daily - very important!
If it does slime after the freshwater dip, put in a steady current in the aquarium and repeat the fresh water dip daily for 3 days, then after 3 days put it in a bowl of saltwater from your aquarium just covering it, then sprinkle neomycin powder (available at the LFS for treating fish, but it works on corals too) over it (about 1 of the little spoons that come with it full) Let set for 10 to 15 minutes then rinse in fresh saltwater and replace in your aquarium. you can repeat this in 2 days if you think it is needed.
If everything goes okay he will start peeking out soon. As soon as he does feed him! Oysterfeast is a good starter meal working up to brine shrimp. Feed every day he's out.
sorry for the long post
