Torch Coral Help

[mrtaylorm]

Not sure what exactly is going on here. My friend has a new torch coral. It's been about a week since it's been added. He has a 110 Gallon tank. Numbers are all good. I noticed something strange when the lights came on this morning. Here is a picture. Any ideas?

 

[MarAquatic]

Looks like brown jelly. Try dipping it in iodine. Most likely it won't love
Jelly spreads to other lps

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[teddscau]

If it is brown jelly, remove it from the tank immediately (move it to a quarantine tank or bucket) and attempt treatment as stated above. Visually examine every coral in the display tank every couple of hours for any sign of disease for the next few days. Break off any pieces of coral displaying symptoms, and for corals that can't be broken apart, immediately blast the affected area and a radius of a couple centimetres of healthy tissue with straight hydrogen peroxide.

Any valuable corals or single polyp corals (i.e., balanophyllia, scolymia, etc.) should be removed from the tank if possible and evacuated to their own comfy, disease-free pails to avoid exposure to the disease. I've been through brown jelly myself with a hammer, and you need to act immediately, otherwise it could wipe out all the corals in your tank. Luckily we only lost the hammer and a few branches off some acros. The disease spreads really fast.

 

[mrtaylorm]

Thank both of you!!


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[MarAquatic]

Smell the coral if it smells like rot then it is brown jelly. Turn power heads off when taking it out so the crap doesnt disperse in your tank. Act quick or else all lps might perish also

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[mrtaylorm]

He had two in there. Both smelled like rot. So we'll see how the tank holds up now. Figures crossed!


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[MarAquatic]

Here is my once beautiful aussie gold torch

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[teddscau]

Blech. Yeah, definitely watch the rest of the corals like a hawk. When my dorky dad removed the infected hammer from our tank he decided to move it directly in front of the powerhead, causing the entire tank to be showered in brown jelly.

Hey, speaking of gold torches, we lost ours as well. For some reason we can't keep torches alive in our tank, despite the fact that hammers do very well >_>.

MarAquatic, are those nuclear zoas I spot?

 

[mrtaylorm]

Oh I bet it was beautiful.


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[MarAquatic]

Blech. Yeah, definitely watch the rest of the corals like a hawk. When my dorky dad removed the infected hammer from our tank he decided to move it directly in front of the powerhead, causing the entire tank to be showered in brown jelly.

Hey, speaking of gold torches, we lost ours as well. For some reason we can't keep torches alive in our tank, despite the fact that hammers do very well >_>.

MarAquatic, are those nuclear zoas I spot?

Yes they are nuclear death palys

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