Is this Brown Jelly Disease?

[TripleJ21]

This is my torch, which has recently gone downhill very bad. This morning he had this all over him. I'm assuming it's brown jelly?

 

[TripleJ21]

Sorry I don't know why the picture turned sideways...

And of course it does it again -_-

 

[lhm nole]

Yep..Take turkey baster and try to suck it off.. Then would dip it and see what happens

 

[Nina51]

sure looks like brown jelly. you need to dip it asap before it spreads! good luck getting rid of it. i had a goni get this once and no matter how many times i dipped, it kept coming back. i finally just pitched it before it spread to my other corals.

 

[TripleJ21]

How long should I dip for? And what's the technique? Sorry Lol I haven't dipped before

 

[TripleJ21]

I got everything set up for the dip, but by the time I was ready, the torch was gone I guess it's a lesson learned for the future.

 

[Fallling]

Sorry to hear that... It spreads really fast. I'm losing a brain right now that was a live rock hitchhiker, survived the tank cycle, and has always been super healthy after that. I noticed yesterday it had the brown jelly and after doing a peroxide dip and blowing the dead tissue off with a turkey baster, about 80% is gone. A few days before, it was completely fine. The halimeda growing around it had gotten long and was brushing against it, so I think it may have been irritating the coral. I don't have much in the way of lps, but I'll much more conscious in the future

 

[Reef Bass]

Sorry for your loss. Brown jelly can rapidly overtake an entire coral.

I haven't been able to stop brown jelly with dips. I saved a large M. undata by physically cutting off the affected area at least 1/2" ahead of the infection. And by saved I mean created a small undata from the unaffected tissue that I cut away from the rapidly necrosing original piece.