Brown Jelly Disease?

ReefDragon · Apr 28, 2017

CRAP.
Like, HOLY CRAP.

So Hubby and are are pretty new to saltwater aquariums. But we have the bug and man do we have it hard....we kinda went a little nuts in getting our first set of frags.
Basically, we have around 400$ worth of coral frags currently sitting in our quarantine....and one just melted into brown goo. CRAP. I did some frantic googling and quickly discovered the symptoms fit brown jelly disease to a T.

So this is what we started with, that little torch in the bottom left. This picture was just after acclimation, revive dip, and placing into the QT, so it was a bit grumpy, but for the last week it's been doing really well. Fully extended and brightly colored.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-I...ew?usp=sharing

And now it looks like this :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-I...ew?usp=sharing
Granted, I just gave it another dip in Revive and moved it to the emergency QT I just set up. But I'm afraid we're gonna lose it. I'm re-dipping everything tonight, gonna drain the regular QT and let it dry out before refilling and moving everything back tomorrow night hopefully.

Anyone have any ideas for anything else I can do to try and save this torch and keep the jelly from spreading??

saltyfilmfolks · Apr 28, 2017

As I have always understood it it is a bacterial infection. Iodine dips are the go to cure as a dip.
I think revive will work as a dip as well. It's an antiseptic.
But you do have to get it out of the tank too.
There are reefsafe or qt safe and coral safe anti bacterial treatments.
Off the top of my head I don't know one to reccomend.

Chemiclean is actually one to look in to. It's an antibacterial. It's used to treat cyano bacteria. eurethromiacin.

LbulletM · Apr 30, 2017

Keep an eye on your other corals! BJD has a tendency to spread! If you notice any signs, treat as salty mentioned above (I have Lugol's dip for this exact reason that I picked up after losing a beautiful splatter hammer. Fortunately haven't had to use it yet.)