Galaxea

[Pickupman66]

OK. so I got this huge galaxea from Ebay the other day and so far it is doping great with 1 exception. one small corner of it seems to be deteriorating. looks like light brown jelly sorta. it is not the typical green metalic, but one wiht shorter polyps and a lighter green.

any guestimates? nshould I try to cut this area off? the area is less than 1/2" square.

 

[Angela Short]

There is a disease called brown jelly disease to worry about. I am not familiar first hand with it but try looking over in LPS forum for some stickys maybe. I think it needs fraggin to save the colony maybe... And a dip ? I dunno but sounds like B. jelly disease.

 

[DMBillies]

I'm tagging along on this. I got a galaxea about a month ago and had a similar problem shortly after putting it in my qt tank. I increased flow to it and spot fed it a few times with frozen cyclopeze (which I've continued to do more sporadically) and it stopped deteriorating after 3 or 4 days. The skeleton is now showing on the spot that died (maybe a quarter sized or tiny bit more), but I haven't lost any more of it in at least 3 weeks. I never fragged it, but had it kept spreading I would have had to get a little more aggressive with treating it. It seems possible that they just get easily damaged during shipping, but maybe Angela has a good candidate. Keep us up on how it's doing.

 

[Pickupman66]

I will surely keep this thread posted on the progress.

 

[KAiNE]

FWIW - I have about a 5" or so colony. Mine has done well for the 6 months+ I have had it.

Here is an excert from Eric Borneman's book.

These colonies do not survive well in the aquarium. They easily succumb to brown jelly infections, necrosis and recession, often resulting from breakage of the parent colony to obtain specimens small enough for the aquarium. However, if healthy, Galaxea are fairly tolorent of water conditions and prefer a brightly illuminated area of the tank with low to moderate flow.
They often contain commensal animals and sponges, the death of which during shipping may result in localized fouling that can result in infection and possible decline of the coral.
Often they are seen in stores with fairly large areas of empty corallites. Fortunatly, the nature of the well seperated polyps somewhat limits further spread of problems, as adjacent corallite contact is limited.


low flow = .5" to 2" a sec
moderate flow = 2.5" - 8" a sec
In case you wondered!

 

[Pickupman66]

Thanks for that info. I still havent rcvd any reply on the lps forum as of yet.

 

[Pickupman66]

well, no one has chimed in on theother forum so I did a little searcing. I did find this lik that was pretty helpful about the issue, and explained how to treat it.

http://www.ericborneman.com/Brown Jelly /Brown Jelly.html

I will take mine out later today and give the dip a shot. I am not sure about the concentration of the iodine. I was going to go with 4 cups of water with about 10 drops per cup. will this be too strong? I may only dip the effected part of the coral and close surrounding areas.