Acan Colony Dying...What is this?

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If you frag it there is a high chance that the coral will be infected where the flesh of the coral is open. Your aquarium is full of bacteria and pathogens including the bacteria that is currently killing your coral. Honestly I would put it in peroxide to initially stop the infection. Get some enthromyicin from your LFS and mix half a packet into a Tupperware with the coral in it. Let it sit for two hours and put it back into your tank. Treat it for a week and there is a good chance it will make it. Then I would remove the empty skeleton as you see fit.

 

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And do you use standard hydrogen peroxide? 3%

Yes 3 percent

 

[Falco]

If you frag it there is a high chance that the coral will be infected where the flesh of the coral is open. Your aquarium is full of bacteria and pathogens including the bacteria that is currently killing your coral. Honestly I would put it in peroxide to initially stop the infection. Get some enthromyicin from your LFS and mix half a packet into a Tupperware with the coral in it. Let it sit for two hours and put it back into your tank. Treat it for a week and there is a good chance it will make it. Then I would remove the empty skeleton as you see fit.

ok sounds like a plan. I have the peroxide (no iodine on hand) so I will willing to give this a shot. I think if I wait any longer I am going to lose the colony anyway. I will report back.

thanks for the quick reply’s everyone!!!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Looks like stinging but nevertheless dip it and move away from nearby corals. I see a hammer in the corner of pic who could have done this.

 

[Falco]

Looks like stinging but nevertheless dip it and move away from nearby corals. I see a hammer in the corner of pic who could have done this.

Thats actually a hairy shroom, could that have stung it? its a good distance away but that doesn't really mean much in a smaller tank...

 

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The Harry mushrooms don't have sweeper tentacles like a hammer. I would definently look for a initiall cause of damage as infections usually need an entry point. Sometimes its stress sometimes it's another coral stinging it

 

[Falco]

Ok so here is where I am at. I did the 1 minute peroxide (50/50) dip and while it was in the container I used a turkey baster to blast the dead tissue off. Seems to have gotten off all of the dead tissue. After the dip I put it in multiple containers and continued to hit it with the turkey baster unit all the loose tissue came off. I will continue to post updates but here is where we are currently at

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Ok so here is where I am at. I did the 1 minute peroxide (50/50) dip and while it was in the container I used a turkey baster to blast the dead tissue off. Seems to have gotten off all of the dead tissue. After the dip I put it in multiple containers and continued to hit it with the turkey baster unit all the loose tissue came off. I will continue to post updates but here is where we are currently at

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Looks good hopefully that will be it and the infection will not progress any further

 

[CindyKz]

Thats actually a hairy shroom, could that have stung it? its a good distance away but that doesn't really mean much in a smaller tank...

The orange ricordea to its left can send out stingers, although if that were the case I would think the edge closest to the shroom would be the one stung.

 

[MixedFruitBasket]

I've used peroxide and it works better than iodine for me. I've also been experimenting with antibiotics and have had a extremely great success rate. My lfs gives me their sick corals and I've used enthromyicin, chloramphenicol (works the best but hard to get), and doxycycline. This will usually stop the infection and prevent it from coming back where iodine dips have yielded poor results for me in the past. Definently brown jelly which is a bacteria/protozoan

neomycin would probably work. It's liquid and can be added to water. It's a livestock antibiotic you used to be able to get over the counter. Not sure you can anymore.

 

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neomycin would probably work. It's liquid and can be added to water. It's a livestock antibiotic you used to be able to get over the counter. Not sure you can anymore.

Ohhhh ok I will look into it! I've done some good experiments and its interesting to see what works. I have not used any liquid antibiotics only powdered forms

 

[MixedFruitBasket]

Ohhhh ok I will look into it! I've done some good experiments and its interesting to see what works. I have not used any liquid antibiotics only powdered forms

When you could buy it over the counter it was THE number one antibiotic for clostridium in animals (mammals). A very nasty opportunistic bacteria (or sometimes contracted from contaminated water--not to be mistake with girardia) that will cause sloughing of the intestinal tract.
Think "jelly" except out of two different orifices because that's pretty much what it looks like when expelled. And the smell is horrific.

 

[MixedFruitBasket]

Ohhhh ok I will look into it! I've done some good experiments and its interesting to see what works. I have not used any liquid antibiotics only powdered forms

Another one of the best anti bacteria weapons out there is sunlight--it will eventually denature anything. I seem to remember reading somewhere how black line disease could be stopped with exposure to sunlight. And since many of these corals get high sunlight exposure, or even air exposure, during low tide, makes you wonder.

 

[cjpitt80]

Ok so here is where I am at. I did the 1 minute peroxide (50/50) dip and while it was in the container I used a turkey baster to blast the dead tissue off. Seems to have gotten off all of the dead tissue. After the dip I put it in multiple containers and continued to hit it with the turkey baster unit all the loose tissue came off. I will continue to post updates but here is where we are currently at

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Any update on the acan?

 

[MixedFruitBasket]

In that natural light it almost looks like it has black line disease. Granted I'm no expert but it does resemble some of the photos I've seen of afflicted brain corals.