In two separate tanks over the past 9 months every Euphyllia that has been placed in either of my tanks has failed. By failed I do not mean they died of brown jelly or some other known cause that was easily discernible. This first started when I added some Australian Euphyllias and has since now spread to every other Euphyllia including frags that were successfully grown in other hobbyist's tanks. What happens is that initially the Euphyllia opens nicely, feeds and does well. And then at some point from 1-3 months it gradually starts opening up less and less. Eventually it does not open at all and the tissue more or less just disappears. There is never that massive brown blob that occurs from brown jelly disease and no fish are picking at it. I did treat one of the tanks with Erythromycin to treat red slime and the problem stopped for a couple of months, only to come back and wipe out the remaining Euphyllias. I have been in the hobby for a long time and have grown some beautiful Euphyllias during that time. But now it is impossible for me to keep even common ones or frags successfully grown in outside tanks by others. I have dipped these corals and quarantined them when I got them and I have dipped in various solutions once they start failing without any success. I would like to know if anyoe else is having this problem especially with Aussie corals? Any help or treatments would be appreciated.
Euphyllias Failing
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wheelman76
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What's your alk at?
staindsoul
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Agree with mess. I would be more skeptical of flow being the issue, with brown jelly. It gets a tear from flow and becomes weakened. Brown jelly can spread, are you removing the colonies that are contaminated and making sure it is all cleaned up?
Removed all of them as they started deteriorating. Am planning on not adding any Euphyllias for at least 3 months to see if what is in there dies out. Put in different flow levels and at different heights once they started pulling back. Did not make any difference. Kept several colonies in one of these tanks for years. Only started having problems when I added some Aussie Euphyllias, now can't keep any.
birdman1979
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Intercepter may help. Won't harm corals, fish, clams or snails. Shrimp copepods hermits etc will probably take a big hit though.
zibba
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Tagging along. I'm having the same issue with an aussie peach/gold euphyllia. It's been in the tank for about 8-weeks now and appeared fine at first (ate mysis and other foods). It's slowly been dying back every since then. At this point, about 1/3 of it is left. I'll say that from the get-go through today, the living portion has always appeared very healthy. At first I thought that it was acclimating and would eventually pull through. Everything else in the tank is doing great and parameters are in order.
This coral was dipped in Bayer prior to adding it to the tank. I haven't done any other dips on the coral.
This coral was dipped in Bayer prior to adding it to the tank. I haven't done any other dips on the coral.
