torch coral melting

[chris88]

what could cause a head of a green torch coral to almost instantly melt away. it has been expanded and healthy for months and then all of the sudden after i clean the glass and turkey bast the rocks one of the heads starts to melt away and fall apart. the other corals and torches are fine and the fish are fine. something must have caused this. Any thoughts?

 

[Denbf58]

i dont know what the cause is but i would cut the haeds off that are melting to stop the spread.

 

[E.intheC]

I think the params would be necessary to further help out.
I know that my frogspawn really didnt' like being moved about too much.
Sorry for your loss of the head though, that's always a disappointment.

 

[nikon187]

Sounds like brown jelly disease, very common with frogspawn, torch and hammer. The only way to stop the spread of brown jelly is to cut the heads off that aren't doing well as mentioned above

 

[dragonette]

you must remove the bad head even if all the tentacles are gone. the disease will spread and kill the whole coral.

Its not necessarily something you did to cause this, but you can stop it from getting worse.

Good luck
Jess

 

[Rhizo]

Did you touch a mouth? Tissue of it maybe?

 

[chris88]

i didnt touch its mouth or its tissue. i do have hermits and they could have messed around with it. it may be brown jelly but what i dont know is why it would come out fo no where and attack a very healthy coral so fast.

 

[nikon187]

that is exactly what brown jelly does, comes out of nowhere and can kill very quickly. I have never seen a hermit bring on brown jelly disease

 

[Derpnin]

that is exactly what brown jelly does, comes out of nowhere and can kill very quickly. I have never seen a hermit bring on brown jelly disease

Heres a pic. This is happening to my green torch now.

 

[Derpnin]

This happened in the span of about 4 hours