Coral Killing Plague

mjdevir · 11/14/2008, 02:34 PM

Few weeks back scraped some green mushrooms off of a live rock to anchor some frags. Within a few days a mushroom killing plague had developed effecting localized mushrooms causing tissue destruction and extending to other corals including frogspawn and SPS corals. On frogspawn became a fuzzy septic mess on coral head, and on SPS slowly moves up stalk bleaching as it progresses. This plague has been progressing across live rock surface turning coral gray as it kills the coraline algae. Have been able to frag affected corals and save portions. However, continues to be present and moving to other pieces of live rock and slowly affecting other similar species. Now running carbon full time, doing water changes, all parameters OK, changed phos-gard last night, did Lugo's dip on several pieces last night, going to change UV lamp tonight. Thoughts on what is occuring and how to correct?

11/14/2008, 02:34 PM	#1
mjdevir Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 1	Coral Killing Plague Few weeks back scraped some green mushrooms off of a live rock to anchor some frags. Within a few days a mushroom killing plague had developed effecting localized mushrooms causing tissue destruction and extending to other corals including frogspawn and SPS corals. On frogspawn became a fuzzy septic mess on coral head, and on SPS slowly moves up stalk bleaching as it progresses. This plague has been progressing across live rock surface turning coral gray as it kills the coraline algae. Have been able to frag affected corals and save portions. However, continues to be present and moving to other pieces of live rock and slowly affecting other similar species. Now running carbon full time, doing water changes, all parameters OK, changed phos-gard last night, did Lugo's dip on several pieces last night, going to change UV lamp tonight. Thoughts on what is occuring and how to correct?