How fast can Brown Jelly spread?

2farNorth

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I recently (last weekend) received a Torch coral from another reefer, that kept receding in his tank.. I didn't notice anything strange about the coral when I got it,,,, it just looked "unhappy" if you know what I mean.

The first couple days it seemed to start to look better... polyps started to extend, and there seemed to be good tissue growth... then yesterday (Friday) I noticed one of the heads was receded really bad, Me, just thinking a hermit or a shrimp was playing around with it, just left it,, came down this morning, and all 3 heads apparently were totally receded, so I moved it to a separate tank,, and within hours,, throughout the day,, the Balloon type Brown jelly totally engulfed the heads of the coral...

Now, how easy does this stuff spread? I mainly seen the Brown jelly stuff when it was back in the QT tank... and when I just pulled it out.. I noticed the jelly basically fell off, and floated around the tank... I'm not overly concerned about the QT tank, but this coral was in my display tank....

How long before I know if it spreads to the other corals? They are all stonies,, such as galaxea, frogspawn, hydnophora, poccillipora, lobos, stags, etc......
 
So far, I did an iodine dip,, actually a couple.. and put him back in QT, As I take it, from the research I've done, that the Brown Jelly mainly attacks corals that are either stressed, or have dying tissue... SO, hopefully it didn't spread to any of the corals in the display tank...
The torch may be too far gone,, I am mainly concerned about the other healthy corals I have,, even in the QT tank...

It seems the Brown Jelly is sorta one of the more 'mysterious' or 'unknown' diseases.... From what I gather....

I have some before and after pics I'll have to try and post later tomorow...
 
Brown jelly can spread very fast. You did the right thing by getting the infected coral out. If the other corals in the tank have had time to adjust to the tank and are otherwise healthy I wouldn't worry to much about it. If the corals are stressed or unhealthy for some reason they will become more susceptible to the infection. I would just make sure that the parameters were correct and maintenance like water changes are all up to date. If the environment is healthy all should be fine.
 
Ok, that's what I thought,, all the other corals in the Display tank are doing good, they've been in for a while and are IMO very healthy...

I'm still amazed to where it actually comes from,, the Torch I'm talking about was starting to look healthier.... and of course when I put him in last weekend, I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary

Sure wakes you up to start a dedicated coral quarintine tank!!
 
Ok, I got a couple pics. to share...


What the Torch looked like a day before the infection, of course there is some receding tissue, but all in all, it was coming back to what it was when I got it....
Torchbefore.jpg




This is the Torch the next day.. of course in a QT tank and hard to get a good picture of:
TorchafterBJ.jpg
 
I'm still going to try and save it,,, altough it's pretty far gone.. I have yet to lose a coral.... This may be the first!!
 
I can't see any viable tissue in that pic. I think it is already gone. Everyone loses a coral sooner or later, especially when the coral was ill when you got it.
 
it's gone. At least it wasn't a $500 acan.. oh wait that was me.

I hate brown jelly and hope your pic was the last time I ever see it.
 
Yeah dude, it's a goner. Had two head of gorgeous torch go the same way. Suck that jelly off, or better yet, just toss the whole coral. It sucks, but not worth infecting anything else :(
 
Wow good thing I read this thread. Last week I accidentaly dropped a little salt into my tank while doing maintnance. It hit my Goniporia and basically instantley killed 75% of it. I left it in the tank because I was hoping it would bounce back. It developed allot of brown slime but I really never had it or heard of it so I left the coal in the tank. I kepped getting the slime of it it by sucking it out with a turkey baster. After reading this thread I immedietley removed the coral from the tank. All my other corals are very healthy so I hope this didn't get to them.
 
Wow good thing I read this thread. Last week I accidentaly dropped a little salt into my tank while doing maintnance. It hit my Goniporia and basically instantley killed 75% of it. I left it in the tank because I was hoping it would bounce back. It developed allot of brown slime but I really never had it or heard of it so I left the coral in the tank. I kepped getting the slime of it it by sucking it out with a turkey baster. After reading this thread I immedietley removed the coral from the tank. All my other corals are very healthy so I hope this didn't get to them.
 
The brown jelly for what I have read is like a secondary effect. It could be the result of a hit, poor water quality (your friend tank), or the convination of this 2. Maybe the corals was just too week and stress and din not resist the new tank.

The borwn jelly spreads really fast it took a complete green brain than I was traing to help in less than 2 days, even I cut a part where the bown yelly was and it started to grows on the other side. your other corals sohould be fine if there are not seek or week.
 
Well so far so good, all corals in display are doing good..... and the 2 large LPS in quarantine are fine,, no signes of Brown Jelly,,, as for the Torch, I believe it's a loss.. I don't see any tissue left.....
 
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