browning goo / jelly like
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Topic: browning goo / jelly like
Posted By: MrViper
Subject: browning goo / jelly like
Date Posted: December 02 2012 at 6:17pm
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One of my frogspawn heads has some brownish color goo covering it. Whar causes this, I know its bad, what can I do? ------------- Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer! Still to many cool stuff not enough money |
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Posted By: suiso man
Date Posted: December 02 2012 at 6:29pm
| shut off the power heads, take it out of the tank asap!! then put it a container and suck out as much of the jelly as you can. you can try and dip it in lugols but the head might no survive. to make sure it doesn't spread you will have to probably cut the infected head to save the colony. I lost a whole colony of pink torch. don't wait do it now.... |
Posted By: suiso man
Date Posted: December 02 2012 at 6:31pm
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its called brown jelly disease. Here is a link to read about it. http://www.athiel.com/lib/bacterial.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.athiel.com/lib/bacterial.html |
Posted By: MrViper
Date Posted: December 02 2012 at 6:31pm
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i already cut off the head...and dumped it...the other head didnt seem to have any ...what causes this? ------------- Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer! Still to many cool stuff not enough money |
Posted By: MrViper
Date Posted: December 02 2012 at 6:40pm
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thanks for the link ------------- Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer! Still to many cool stuff not enough money |
Posted By: suiso man
Date Posted: December 03 2012 at 8:18am
| no problem I hope it helps. |
Posted By: ReefdUp
Date Posted: December 03 2012 at 5:09pm
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There's still a ton of debate in the scientific community as to what "brown jelly disease" is...or if it is anything at all. Corals with "brown jelly disease" have been found with all sorts of infections, protozoans, etc. It may just be a way of how some corals die under certain conditions (infection, disease, injury, etc.) Here's a link to how I treated a "candy cane" coral with "brown jelly". http://www.reefdup.com/2012/05/26/rescuing-dying-corals-caulestrea/ ------------- www.reefdup.com Diving since 2009, reefkeeping since 2007, & fishkeeping since 1987 200g, 75g, & 15g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water |
Posted By: MrViper
Date Posted: December 03 2012 at 7:31pm
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thanks ... Im watching mine. I cut out the bad parts...after 24 hours ive nothing else. I need to get some of that coral RX and lugols ------------- Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer! Still to many cool stuff not enough money |
Posted By: MrViper
Date Posted: December 31 2012 at 10:21pm
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Just as a update. the frogspawn came out all right, none of the rest is affected and already has 2 new heads
------------- Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer! Still to many cool stuff not enough money |
Posted By: BobC63
Date Posted: January 03 2013 at 1:07pm
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Glad to hear the rest of the coral survived ------------- - My Current Tank: 50g Starfire Cube Reef * Marine & Reef tanks since 1977 * |
Posted By: suiso man
Date Posted: January 08 2013 at 8:28am
| good news! |