Plate Coral with tan/brown jelly like covering -- Help

[fulinn]

My Long Tentacled Plate Coral has been in a decline for several days. I have been trying to find out whats wrong with him with no luck. Arrived home from work today to find him covered in a tan/brown jelly like substance !!

I need advise quickly !1

I'm going to spend a few minutes researching and if I don't find out how to help I'll remove him from the tank. I don't want it to spread ..


Please help if you can, but I'm researching now.

Bonnie

 

[waltm]

Try a search for "brown jelly infection". I've run into this once and lost the coral so I don't have any useful advice other than the search phrase, sorry.

 

[Aquadiva]

check your pms

second one to be exact. the one with the link to Eric Borneman's treatment protocol.

 

[Gina McReeferson]

If you look up Brown Jelly Disease on Google, you come come up with lots of useful info.

Let's see if I can find some old threads in here for you as well.....

I remember Greg Hiller had a great treatment for this, let me see if I can find the thread....


Here are a few threads on brown jelly, I did a search in Reef Talk.....

http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26742&highlight=brown+jelly
http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40327&highlight=brown+jelly
http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43508&highlight=brown+jelly

Good luck Bonnie.

 

[fulinn]

I have removed him from the tank, I would say there was little to nothing left alive. As I placed him in the transfer dish, to move to QT tank, he basicly fell apart. All of the "jelly" stuff fell off, leaving only skeleton and there was only a 5 tentacles left which were totally deflated and very very tiny in size.

However, I'm afraid it will spread to my other LPS's so I still need to learn how to treat this and ID it. I have been doing the google reading, but any advise is welcome.

I'm afraid its very unlikely that this coral will survive, but I want to be ready should it strike any of my other LPS's.

Thank you for the quick reply's,

Bonnie

 

[Aquadiva]

For those who inquired:

Borneman link I sent to Bonnie...

http://forum.marinedepot.com/FindPost55105.aspx