Infection?

[roxbury003]

Hey everyone, need some help ID'ing what is happening here.

Last week, I had a group of mushrooms that were on the bottom of my tank in a corner, seem to melt. (At least thats what it looked like) They slowly disintegrated into this pinkish brown junk that I suctioned out.

Then yesterday, my yellow Fiji starts to get brown spots on it. Fearing that my fiji might suffer the same fate as my mushrooms, I dipped him in Coral RX and clean off the brown spots. (UNderneath was just white skin of the coral)

Today, my fiji is worse :



I fear my best course of action is to pull him and try and find a good piece to cut out. Unless someone knows what this is and how to deal with it.

All my parameters are fine. They haven't changed. I dose with vinegar and do 10% weekly water changes.

Anyone know what this is and how to stop it?

 

[RyanSweatt2004]

You can take a brand new clean tooth brush and gently scrub off all the necrotic tissue on the coral, then give it a dip in whatever coral dip you prefer to kill back the bacteria. It's worked well for me on leather corals. Cutting the bad tissue away is also an option but it leaves the coral more susceptible to secondary infections from what I've experienced. Either way, you'll want to put it in higher flow to help keep it from going necrotic again. Best of luck.

 

[roxbury003]

Thanks for the input. I had tried that previously the day before and at that point there were only a few spots, this was what it looked like the following day. Do you know if the necrotic tissue can transfer to other leathers and infect them?

 

[RyanSweatt2004]

Generally the tissue necrosis is individual coral specific unless it's caused by a water parameter or contaminate issue in which case any coral can be affected.

 

[lostintheocean]

i would start by moving it away from those mushrooms to ensure they are not bothering it. it looks pretty bad though, sometime the more you mess with it the worse it gets