Brown jelly disease???

awall · 10/14/2014, 06:40 PM

Just wondering if anyone can tell me if this looks like brown jelly disease. My favites started receding and now looks like it is growing brown fur/hair. If so, any recommendations? The rest of the corals in my tank look good and I would like to prevent it from spreading.

webslinger · 10/14/2014, 06:49 PM

looks like brown jelly. got a picture of it?

cloak · 10/15/2014, 10:27 AM

It's kind of hard to tell from those pictures, but are you sure it's not just diatoms growing where the tissue has receded?

awall · 10/17/2014, 11:07 AM

Thanks for the suggestion, don't think it is diatoms where the tissue receded since the previous day the this area was alive and well. It had only receded along the bottom edges.

Nina51 · 10/17/2014, 12:57 PM

lost a goni to brown jelly. it did start at the bottom edge. i dipped it in lugols (i think that's what it was) but it just kept spreading. i ditched it before it spread to my other corals. it's a hard thing to get a handle on, in my limited experience.

phillrodrigo · 10/17/2014, 01:03 PM

I went to a frag show and one of the vendors said to try and dip them in a peroxide dip. It seems to slow it down so maybe repeat a few times. I saw a hammer showing signs. I dipped it and it held on for a week longer. Maybe I didn't dip long enough or as high of a concentration as I should have

UTCReefer · 10/17/2014, 11:41 PM

You may try dipping or just bit the bullet and yank it out of your tank. It can spread from one coral to the next.

10/14/2014, 06:40 PM	#1
awall Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 14	Brown jelly disease??? Just wondering if anyone can tell me if this looks like brown jelly disease. My favites started receding and now looks like it is growing brown fur/hair. If so, any recommendations? The rest of the corals in my tank look good and I would like to prevent it from spreading.

10/17/2014, 12:57 PM	#5
Nina51 biggliest cofveve champ Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: 5th floor, Illinois, gewgaw expert Posts: 3,506	lost a goni to brown jelly. it did start at the bottom edge. i dipped it in lugols (i think that's what it was) but it just kept spreading. i ditched it before it spread to my other corals. it's a hard thing to get a handle on, in my limited experience. __________________ of all the things i've lost, i miss my gary the most. Never hold your farts in. They travel up your spine into your brain, and that is where crappy ideas come from. Current Tank Info: i gave my reef away and i feel like a bird out of a cage!!

10/14/2014, 06:49 PM	#2
webslinger Friendly Neighborhood Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Lancaster, NY Posts: 307	looks like brown jelly. got a picture of it?

10/15/2014, 10:27 AM	#3
cloak Moved On Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Stockton, CA Posts: 14,854	It's kind of hard to tell from those pictures, but are you sure it's not just diatoms growing where the tissue has receded?

10/17/2014, 11:07 AM	#4
awall Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 14	Thanks for the suggestion, don't think it is diatoms where the tissue receded since the previous day the this area was alive and well. It had only receded along the bottom edges.

10/17/2014, 01:03 PM	#6
phillrodrigo Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: quaker hill ct Posts: 2,433	I went to a frag show and one of the vendors said to try and dip them in a peroxide dip. It seems to slow it down so maybe repeat a few times. I saw a hammer showing signs. I dipped it and it held on for a week longer. Maybe I didn't dip long enough or as high of a concentration as I should have

10/17/2014, 11:41 PM	#7
UTCReefer Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Diego Posts: 652	You may try dipping or just bit the bullet and yank it out of your tank. It can spread from one coral to the next.