Awoke to BJD on my 10yo hammer…pray for me

[RBuchetto]

Awoke this morning to a sight that I was not expecting. Over five heads had ejected polyps over night with two more head visibly showing the ever dreaded brown jelly. The colony is over 10yo and I’ve never had the courage to frag it.

Today, I jumped in, hoping I wouldn’t loose the entire thing. Tossed all of the dead heads and the ones were the flesh was far too gone. Did a dip with Seachem Reef Dip and then a quick RO “bath”.

Pray for me and my “OG” who has survived a 50 mile move from my first apartment to my first house as well the transition from a 32 to 90 gallon tank. One of my first corals.

 

[RELLIK-REEF]

We wish you the best.

 

[Shirak]

hoping you can save a good portion!
In case you haven't seen it, this is a good read on BJD.
https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/exper...iotic-treatments-for-brown-jelly-disease.791/

 

[Uroplatus]

I’m wishing you the best, hate that stuff

 

[RBuchetto]

hoping you can save a good portion!
In case you haven't seen it, this is a good read on BJD.
https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/exper...iotic-treatments-for-brown-jelly-disease.791/

Thank you! Very interesting and fingers crossed I eliminated the infected sections before it spreads to the other LPS in the tank.

 

[TheDragonsReef]

Good luck man hope she makes it. Ive had good luck with antibiotics and fighting bjd. Now i always keep them on hand.

 

[RBuchetto]

Fragging seems to have been a success. Removed a frag that developed some bjd overnight. The other heads seem to be doing well. I don’t happen to have any Ciprofloxacin on hand to try and dose the tank. Fingers crossed we will make it!

 

[CrimsonTide]

Fragging seems to have been a success. Removed a frag that developed some bjd overnight. The other heads seem to be doing well. I don’t happen to have any Ciprofloxacin on hand to try and dose the tank. Fingers crossed we will make it!

They look pretty good now! Goodluck.

 

[A Young reefer]

Fragging seems to have been a success. Removed a frag that developed some bjd overnight. The other heads seem to be doing well. I don’t happen to have any Ciprofloxacin on hand to try and dose the tank. Fingers crossed we will make it!

looking pretty good!
lost my hammer garden to bdj. hopefully yours makes it and lives for many years to come.

 

[Pistondog]

Maybe just the photo, but your water looks yellow. If we think bacteria contributes to bjd, run some carbon or ozone to break up yellowing organics and let the skimmer do its work.

 

[Lavey29]

BJD starts when corals are stressed due to something wrong in their parameters. Light. Flow or nutrients. I had it spreading fast in my tank and chemiclean treatment followed by big bag of carbon stopped the spread.

 

[RBuchetto]

BJD starts when corals are stressed due to something wrong in their parameters. Light. Flow or nutrients. I had it spreading fast in my tank and chemiclean treatment followed by big bag of carbon stopped the spread.

Thanks for the input! I’ll have to keep an eye on the tank. Water isn’t yellowed - likely the camera. Pulled the carbon bag the other day. I also run a bag of purigen in the sump. Doing a water change today as well.

 

[RBuchetto]

looking pretty good!
lost my hammer garden to bdj. hopefully yours makes it and lives for many years to come.

Hopefully for another ten years! Hate to have had to cut the colony down so much

 

[RBuchetto]

Maybe just the photo, but your water looks yellow. If we think bacteria contributes to bjd, run some carbon or ozone to break up yellowing organics and let the skimmer do its work.

Just the photo! Thanks for pointing that out as a potential issue!

 

[RBuchetto]

Looking good each day!

 

[Terry Le]

Best of luck. I lost a couple of my 10 years plus colonies to BJD. Any idea how it started?

 

[RBuchetto]

Best of luck. I lost a couple of my 10 years plus colonies to BJD. Any idea how it started?

The frags are doing very well now after the “hair cut” and iodine dip. I’ll posit up some pics when they are all open in the morning.

Seems it occurred from the colony getting irratated. My christmas wrasse overturned the colony slightly when digging his den. I had it mounted to some base rock on the sand bed. The colony was so big when fully open, that I did not notice that heads got pushed into the sand bed - shame on me. That caused a chain of events where heads started to melt off and the brown film was covering the exposed skeleton and adjacent heads.

I am convinced that the bacteria is in the water column, but that the tank is in a state of equilibrium. The other LPS are fine (chalices, candy cane / trumpets, and a torch). I count myself lucky that I had the guts to attempt my first LPS fragging…but it was either try it or loose it all. Now, I am more curious about testing the water to see if the BJD bacteria does exist or if this was a misidentification on my part. But all signs seemed to have pointed to BJD.

 

[Shirak]

The frags are doing very well now after the “hair cut” and iodine dip. I’ll posit up some pics when they are all open in the morning.

Seems it occurred from the colony getting irratated. My christmas wrasse overturned the colony slightly when digging his den. I had it mounted to some base rock on the sand bed. The colony was so big when fully open, that I did not notice that heads got pushed into the sand bed - shame on me. That caused a chain of events where heads started to melt off and the brown film was covering the exposed skeleton and adjacent heads.

I am convinced that the bacteria is in the water column, but that the tank is in a state of equilibrium. The other LPS are fine (chalices, candy cane / trumpets, and a torch). I count myself lucky that I had the guts to attempt my first LPS fragging…but it was either try it or loose it all. Now, I am more curious about testing the water to see if the BJD bacteria does exist or if this was a misidentification on my part. But all signs seemed to have pointed to BJD.

Glad they are doing well. You could always try sending in a sample of water to AquaBiomics and have them analyze your tank microbiology for diversity and potential pathogen microbes.