A while ago I lost all but one of my ric. florida to what I think was brown jelly disease... I thought that brown jelly only attacked lps. Is it normal for it to go after rics? Really sucked losing them all within a couple of days.
Brown jelly on rics?
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MimicOcto8
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picture would have been very nice for future knowledge. never seen or heard of brown jelly on a ric. that would make me cry if i did
Brown jelly is like RTN and STN, more of a description of what is happening, than an actual disease.
Many corals can exhibit any of these conditions due to many factors, and much of the time the result will appear the same- as brown jelly, or RTN.
Many corals can exhibit any of these conditions due to many factors, and much of the time the result will appear the same- as brown jelly, or RTN.
I have read in the past that BJD can affect mushrooms also. It is a bacterial infection usually brought on by trauma (handling, nipping by fish) hence the reason you usually see it in Euphyllia (hammers,frogspawn, bubble and torch) more often since they are very delicate. Mushrooms can and do get it. Most of the time if you have enough flow in your tank it will be blown off the affected coral and removed from your tank via skimming along with an lugols solution dip and the coral will be allowed to heal. If you see it present you should use a turkey baster and siphon it of asap and remove from the tank.
+1 on someone asking for pics as it is very helpful to those in the forum that have never seen it.
+1 on someone asking for pics as it is very helpful to those in the forum that have never seen it.
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Yep, I was able to save one of the rics by moving it to a high flow area... The thing that bugs me is that these were healthy rics with no damage that I could see.
It's hard to say with a bacterial infection cause it can spread very easily once in the tank. I have read where people tried the flow, dips and only lost one head or polyp and then the exact opposite where they tried everything and lost the entire coral. Usually when you see the actually brown jelly it is in the final stage of killing the coral.
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Yeah, at the time it started with a new (pink valley)platagyra that I picked up, had it for about a week and it got the jelly.... ended up claiming well over a $1000 worth of acans as well
The only thing I found to cure BJD(not a disease but an infection) is Melafix Marine, it is a type of Tea tree extract......I have saved Ricordea florida, torches, frogspawns etc... With it. I have even save a few Ricordea yuma with it. Multiple dips in consecutive days.....It does happen with ricordea from time to time, from my experience Ricordea florida is pretty resistant unless they are newly acclimated or freshly fragged. I have lost a few fragged ricordea and many, many yuma as they seem susceptible to it usually within the first month of acclimation.....Before I got out of reefing I kept a bottle of Melafix Marine on hand just in case....If you can catch it before it starts to destroy tissue it is much easier to cure. Hope some of that helps.
I made that mistake once, at least the skimmer is the only thing effected.
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I got the melafix marine. Dosed it at about half strength if I recall... was getting desperate since I was losing colonies left and right... It's possible the treatment helped but what I think really helped was getting alot of the organics out, several good sized water changes....
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