Brown jelly on New torch ?

[radreef02]

Dipped my new torch , I believe it has 3 heads starting but one got this brown jelly stuff I believe . The skeleton was pretty exposed after a day or 2 so that might be a reason ?

Other corals are perfectly good.

Will this spread to the others ?

do I try to frag it or trash it ? I don’t have a very good light for it in QT just a basic blue and led light

pH- 8
Salinity - 1.025
Phosphate- 0.2
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 2
Ammonia - 0.1 ( prime dosing , as it was 0 a few days ago )

 

[Ricox]

If it is brown jelly disease, this can kill your torch in a few weeks and can potentially spread to your other corals. I would remove the torch so you don't risk it spreading to other corals and try to treat it in a quarantine tank.

 

[radreef02]

If it is brown jelly disease, this can kill your torch in a few weeks and can potentially spread to your other corals. I would remove the torch so you don't risk it spreading to other corals and try to treat it in a quarantine tank.

It’s pretty far from any other corals , just near a sps , I can move the sps though . Just really want to avoid it touching my blasto or torch nearby

 

[Ricox]

You should try and up the flow or do an iodine dip if it is not glued down. You should also try turning the UV up on your lights. See if any of that works. But to be honest I wouldn't risk it but you could try to treat it for a few more days but remove it after that so you don't risk losing other corals as well.

 

[Ricox]

Also you should probably want to move the sps if you are going to keep it in there longer.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

That torch has one head, and is pinched while splitting, but is still one head. It's unfraggable at this stage. .2 PO4 is (arguably) high and some will say can be a contributing factor. What sort of ammonia test kid are you using? Once you are cycled you should not see ammonia again.

This may have been shipping damage since you just brought it in. How was the Torch packaged for transport? Was the head rubbing on the bag or cup?

Can this spread??
If it's bacterial, yes it could. Bjd hit my tank last year and very few LPS were unaffected.

 

[radreef02]

That torch has one head, and is pinched while splitting, but is still one head. It's unfraggable at this stage. .2 PO4 is (arguably) high and some will say can be a contributing factor. What sort of ammonia test kid are you using? Once you are cycled you should not see ammonia again.

This may have been shipping damage since you just brought it in. How was the Torch packaged for transport? Was the head rubbing on the bag or cup?

Can this spread??
If it's bacterial, yes it could. Bjd hit my tank last year and very few LPS were unaffected.

Red Sea test kits & api. Tried ammonia on both and got 0 to 2ish on both .

the phosphate was probably .1 but I put .2 to be safe.

the head probably rubbed against the bag a few times. But this one struggled to open only after I dipped it when I got it. The skeleton seemed super inflamed during the dip and honestly didn’t fully recover. I went on a honeymoon trip this weekend. Came home and it Was shrunk and looked like that.
I just added this torch maybe a week ago. The smaller green single head was from the same tank, literally next to it, they looked the same. But when I got home I noticed that one with jelly was starting to split.

 

[radreef02]

Yeah also worth noting that my hammer went south last week and came home and it looks about dead as well.
I just recently relocated it before it went south so that might of been a factor ?

I’m confused because all other corals are thriving aside from this hammer and that torch. Way more concerned about the torch though due to spread.

 

[radreef02]

Lighting schedule currently.

 

[radreef02]

I took out torch and hammer and put in separate tank , I also added a UV to DT .

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I found this on another forum and feel it's a good read for any of us who keep euphyllia...

Thread 'Euphyllia (especially torch coral) buying help' https://www.ultimatereef.net/threads/euphyllia-especially-torch-coral-buying-help.885184/

An exerpt:
"A major issue here is, apart from signs of recession of flesh these corals will look amazing right upto the point of death. I have countless times seen torch corals with their heads hanging off, at the point of no return still looking amazing with long flowing polyps and then stone cold dead the next day.

"To even an experienced eye deterioration in these corals is rarely noticed until one day when half the coral rots away or polyps float off. The owner normally assumes it is something they did recently, in reality the cascade of events that caused the death most likely happened months down the line.

"A slight change in flow, causing a microscopic nick, a bit of algae or stuck food, where flesh meets the skeleton, a drop in nutrient or starvation which caused flesh to retract a bit and cut on its sharp septa etc etc.. followed by an unseen bacterial infection and the slow spread through the coral over months. All hidden from the proud owners eye."

 

[radreef02]

I found this on another forum and feel it's a good read for any of us who keep euphyllia...

Thread 'Euphyllia (especially torch coral) buying help' https://www.ultimatereef.net/threads/euphyllia-especially-torch-coral-buying-help.885184/

An exerpt:
"A major issue here is, apart from signs of recession of flesh these corals will look amazing right upto the point of death. I have countless times seen torch corals with their heads hanging off, at the point of no return still looking amazing with long flowing polyps and then stone cold dead the next day.

"To even an experienced eye deterioration in these corals is rarely noticed until one day when half the coral rots away or polyps float off. The owner normally assumes it is something they did recently, in reality the cascade of events that caused the death most likely happened months down the line.

"A slight change in flow, causing a microscopic nick, a bit of algae or stuck food, where flesh meets the skeleton, a drop in nutrient or starvation which caused flesh to retract a bit and cut on its sharp septa etc etc.. followed by an unseen bacterial infection and the slow spread through the coral over months. All hidden from the proud owners eye."

Appreciate it , will read up

 

[Fredrxn]

Appreciate it , will read up

Any update on the corals

 

[radreef02]

That coral died and shrunk up. The rest survived but I ended up completely restarting and started a redsea 200xl build which I have a thread for . Thanks for all the advice guys

 

[Minhaj Qazi]

Dipped my new torch , I believe it has 3 heads starting but one got this brown jelly stuff I believe . The skeleton was pretty exposed after a day or 2 so that might be a reason ?

Other corals are perfectly good.

Will this spread to the others ?

do I try to frag it or trash it ? I don’t have a very good light for it in QT just a basic blue and led light

pH- 8
Salinity - 1.025
Phosphate- 0.2
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 2
Ammonia - 0.1 ( prime dosing , as it was 0 a few days ago )

I have Recently Treated BJD in my Torch near death. And It Recivered back Nicely. You Can Follow my Write up here at Reef2reef and also watch YouTube video where i have shown detailed 2 treatments with After Days Results.

 

[Minhaj Qazi]

Yeah also worth noting that my hammer went south last week and came home and it looks about dead as well.
I just recently relocated it before it went south so that might of been a factor ?

I’m confused because all other corals are thriving aside from this hammer and that torch. Way more concerned about the torch though due to spread.

I recently treated my Torch in BJD and it recovered nicely.. A detailed treatment write up and Shown in vid at