Brown jelly or something else?

[Jd120988]

Does this look like brown jelly or something else?

 

[Jd120988]

Another pic, sorry I'm having trouble getting pics of the brown stuff coming off it

 

[laverda]

It does not look like brown jelly.

 

[Jd120988]

Any idea what the brown stuff could be?

 

[JGT]

Not brown jelly. Just the hammer color.

 

[Jd120988]

Not brown jelly. Just the hammer color.

There's brown stuff coming off of the coral and floating in the water column of the cup.

 

[JGT]

Poop.

 

[Jd120988]

Poop.

Would that come from the flesh or the mouth because this isn't coming from the mouth?

 

[JGT]

It sometimes can get interwoven in the tentacles and look like it’s coming from the tentacles when in fact it’s coming out of the mouth.
Also if it was BJD, with a hammer, the entire coral head would be infected and you’d lose the entire coral.

 

[Jd120988]

It sometimes can get interwoven in the tentacles and look like it’s coming from the tentacles when in fact it’s coming out of the mouth.
Also if it was BJD, with a hammer, the entire coral head would be infected and you’d lose the entire coral.

Thanks for the responses

 

[Twinanoreef]

Smell it If it smells like a rotting corpse, it is brown jelly, if not probably some discharge, give it good flow and it should be fine, I see no tissue recession.

 

[tnewell]

Smell it If it smells like a rotting corpse, it is brown jelly, if not probably some discharge, give it good flow and it should be fine, I see no tissue recession.

If this isn’t the most accurate response, the smell test for me has almost been 100% effective. Even with a regular bacterial infection a coral will smell bad.

 

[tnewell]

If this isn’t the most accurate response, the smell test for me has almost been 100% effective. Even with a regular bacterial infection a coral will smell bad.

I don’t think it’s BJD, def just poop or the hammers color. I had a hammer turn brownish like that due to lack of light and it was forced to morph its color a little to survive!

 

[Jd120988]

I don’t think it’s BJD, def just poop or the hammers color. I had a hammer turn brownish like that due to lack of light and it was forced to morph its color a little to survive!

So I should have added because it was definitely important info. This was a frogspawn I picked up from a local reefer and it took a nice 1.5hr drive home. It came out of the bag looking like that and I proceeded to drip acclimate it. Only about 20-30 minute drip as our parameters were near identical. I did a dip in coral rx and then some iodine to be safe. I took the advice that it's not bjd and put it in a low flow area to monitor it.

 

[Jd120988]

Let's just say it's looking pretty good already.

 

[Twinanoreef]

Glad to see there is no issues

 

[LegendaryCG]

Brown jelly looks and smells absolutely nasty. Like your coral has a sinus infection.

 

[reefiniteasy]

Still having this problem? I get those brown spots in my frogspawn when it’s stung by my bubble coral. On mine it’s the tentacle dying. I use a coral feeder and siphon it off.