Brown Jelly Disease

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Lets share some of your experience with this diease.


Let me start with my stories.

Weeks ago, I have a colony of galaxia melted due to the diease. I could have saved the colony if I can determine the diease at the time when I see the first half is melting.


Now I run into another case of the same diease. I saw a 1/4" x 1/2" white skeleton of a frogspwan on one of the branch. 4 hours later, the patch enlarged to 1/2" x 3/4". I make up my mind to do the surgery. I cut out half the head and scrap all(hope so) the remaining deteriating tissue deep(over an inch from the head downward) in the branch. I can see strings of melting tissue coming out wherever my knife is. It's not a pleasant experience cutting and scrapping the coral but I guess I have to do this to save the whole branch. I am supposed to Qt it for a while before putting back so that all the bad bacteria along with the deteriating tissue would not infect other coral with wounds. Unfortunately, I do not have a QT operational at the moment, so I direct more flow toward the area. Woke up this morning, the remaining tissue looks intact even though not too happy to fully extend but at least no longer deteriating. I will know if the operation is a success when I go home tonight.


Tell me what yours experience, sightings, remedies, preventions and your suspicions how the diease come about.

 

[reefman]

i find lugols may help or heal, providing it's done properly n the right dosage.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

i find lugols may help or heal, providing it's done properly n the right dosage.

Can you elaborate on your dosage and procedures because I guess this could a lot of the fellow members

 

[marrone]

Usually what I would do it to remove the head, if I can. If I can't I'll scrap the head down to get out all the tissue. I will then dip the branch in fresh water to kill the disease.

 

[reefman]

depending on what you're treating and how severe the infection is, treatment will vary.
in cases like yours where unlike a candy cane, removing an infected head is not possible. I would try dipping. To use lugol's as a dip : in a separate bucket add 40 drops Lugol's Solution to 1 gallon aquarium water and dip for 15 mintutes. i find having a small powerhead with gentle flow while dipping helps to remove any dead spots thats beyond hope.
Rinse with tank water then put back in tank. this will probably need to be repeated depnding on the severity of the infection. visual inspection is your 1st defense.
also note that keeping your iodine level at .06ppm helps in fighting infection. be careful not to overdose since some inhabitants in your reef can be very sensitive to it(i.e angel fishes)

caution: lugol's is very potent and can leech out over time even in the bottle it comes in. put the bottle in something dense to contain it.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Status: I lost this battle.


For 2 days the head with the surgery stay OK but one morning, the remaning helf peeled off!


Anyoen knows how the disease come about? And how it transmitted to other parts of the tissue?

I found that the tissue deep inside the "roots"(center of the skeleton) are more watery(assuming that means more damged by the disease) Would it implies the disease may be travelling the along roots of the coral and infect the head thru those connections?

 

[Deanos]

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