what causes brown jelly disease

phillrodrigo

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In the last year of mt 2 years reefing ive realized im a euphyllia nut. I search out and find some nice ones also have some common ones. In March I went to connecticuts frag farmers market. I came home with a rainbow hammer and a green torch with different color tips. First my rainbow went to brown jelly but I saved half of it. Then it was the green torch which the whole thing went. I dipped them in a coral disinfectant. Then a fee weeks later my big head of golden torch went to brown jelly. Then I have a green and purple hammer a few heads went but saved the rest. The new one that is going is my green frogspawn. All the others I have from a orange wall hammer blue hammer blue torch a swirly green and purple purple tip torch are all fine. The heads get brown jelly then break off amd wrap themselves around my acros of course. My hawkins which went from a inch to almost 3 came home to a polyp of hammer wrapped around it the next day it.was dead. My yellow tenius same thing happened to. It also happened to another acro but it was wrapped on the tip which I cut off and its doing fine. As of now I have 10 colonies and large frags of euphyllia.
Tank parameters
salinity 1.025 measured a calibrated refracto using 35 ppt fluid
calcium 460 mag 1350
alk 7.5 which im bringing up.
nitrates are around 10
phosphate I dont measure I do use gfo. Have no algea issues so phosphate shouldn't be high
 
I have had that brown jelly and I think it is a bacteria and do just what you are cut out the infection and hope for the best. I do not know if higher flow or using carbon would help. Maybe some other reefers will have more answers!
 
It seems that I never had it but once I got it its going nuts. If it goes to my orange ill probably throw a hammer through my tank lol. It took me awhile to find it and its pretty big well over a softball size.
 
Why is my meleranus wrasse eating the dying heads. Hes literally pulling them apart and eating it. He only does it when they have brown jelly
 
I did. It still went forward. My 12 head green frog is pretty much toast. And of course when I went to cut the dead heads off I cracked a good one. They are so brittle
 
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