frogspawn/hammer melting or brown jelly

[vaporize]

Just a general for questions that keep frogspawn/hammer/torch type of corals.

There are certain incidents that I purchase wild colonies, when I take them home I put them through the coral dip for 20 minutes and put them in the tank.

After anywehre from 2 weeks to 2 months, some colonies suddenly will get the brown jelly or something simliar that starts to melt away (start from a corner or bottom close to skeleton, and usually die within 2 days to a week. Giving them coral dips sometimes work, sometimes don't.

I have tried, standard Lugol solution, Seachem coral dip, Tropic Marin coral cure, does not seem to differ a lot in terms of results.

Just wondering if anybody has done anything differently to quarantine or treat similiar situations. It seems to affect hammer the most, with less occurance on frogspawn & torches.

 

[fierceseaman]

Man, brown jelly is just one of those things. From everything I've read, its always in your tank in its latent bacteria form. If a coral is injured or its health deteriorates for some reason, the bacteria is there to take hold. I have never had it effect a coral that has been in my tank longer than about 1 week though. Usually is seems that euphyllia with their longer polyps seem to get more easily damaged in shipping. This sets them up perfectly to catch the brown jelly. Doing a dip before putting them in the tank should help them but sometimes it seems like a crap shoot honestly.

 

[vaporize]

Thanks fierceseaman for sharing the honest experience, that is exactly my feeling too. There are some colonies that are right beside the affected ones, they live fine even when their neighbour beside them completely dissolve and melt (whenever I notice it, I try to remove them from other colonies, but there are sometimes I get to them too late).