Euphyllia paraancora Is dying .

Koralik · Oct 26, 2019

Hello
I’m very sad this is my first lps coral . I noticed that flat worms was eating my coral and I read that the best is to soak in to ro water for 15sec.
Flat worms fall off but my coral looking very bad. I read also It will take time to regeneration but can it be for sure?
Please any advice?

ndrwater · Oct 26, 2019

That looks like it may also have brown jelly disease. Unfortunately, usually terminal. A few more fresh water dips may help.
Corals are amazingly robust. Hopefully, yours makes it.

Koralik · Oct 26, 2019

ndrwater said:
That looks like it may also have brown jelly disease. Unfortunately, usually terminal. A few more fresh water dips may help.
Corals are amazingly robust. Hopefully, yours makes it.

Brown Jelly disease ? What’s that?

ndrwater · Oct 26, 2019

Koralik said:
Brown Jelly disease ? What’s that?

It's a bacterial infection that is not uncommon to euphillia corals. The head on the right in the picture has the telltale signs. Brown slimy coating on the head of the coral.
To my knowledge, there isn't a tried and true cure. Only ancidotal stories with moderate success.
I think a freshwater dip may help. Or.. cutting the infected head off and tossing it may save the other heads.
Brown jelly seems to move quickly and also seems to be contagious to other euphillia in the tank.
Sometimes cutting (literally) your losses up front prevents a bigger or more widespread problem

Koralik · Oct 26, 2019

ndrwater said:
It's a bacterial infection that is not uncommon to euphillia corals. The head on the right in the picture has the telltale signs. Brown slimy coating on the head of the coral.
To my knowledge, there isn't a tried and true cure. Only ancidotal stories with moderate success.
I think a freshwater dip may help. Or.. cutting the infected head off and tossing it may save the other heads.
Brown jelly seems to move quickly and also seems to be contagious to other euphillia in the tank.
Sometimes cutting (literally) your losses up front prevents a bigger or more widespread problem

Thank you for answer. I attache one more pictures please see if it for sure this jelly.

ndrwater · Oct 26, 2019

Kind of hard to tell. In that pic, it looks less like brown jelly. Just algae.
A freshwater dip would still be in order.

ndrwater · Oct 26, 2019

Also keep in mind. Euphillia like moderate indirect flow. To much or to little and the coral won't extend as much as you'd like.
They also can take several days to weeks to become fully acclimated to a new tank.
Best of luck and keep the updates coming

miyags · Oct 26, 2019

How long has it been since you dipped.They can take awhile to open back up,if they aren't happy.

Jake_the_reefer · Oct 26, 2019

Never give up on a coral. I thought my frogspawn was a goner but look at it now. This is only a couple months of recovery

ndrwater · Oct 26, 2019

Jake_the_reefer said:
Never give up on a coral. I thought my frogspawn was a goner but look at it now. This is only a couple months of recovery

I have a Goni like that. Thought it was dead. Like MONTHS dead. Never got around to tossing the skeleton, and now it's coming back like gangbusters

Koralik · Oct 26, 2019

miyags said:
How long has it been since you dipped.They can take awhile to open back up,if they aren't happy.

She was opening perfectly fine.
I dipped about 3h ago

Koralik · Oct 27, 2019

On the next day, my coral looks better . Looks like it’s coming back to life. Also, I can still see some flatworms. At the moment, I will leave my coral in peace. Maybe next week I will try again to dip in fresh water. I’m very happy my coral is back, I was worried that it wouldn’t. Any other idea on how to get rid of flatworms?

Jake_the_reefer · Oct 27, 2019

Koralik said:
On the next day, my coral looks better . Looks like it’s coming back to life. Also, I can still see some flatworms. At the moment, I will leave my coral in peace. Maybe next week I will try again to dip in fresh water. I’m very happy my coral is back, I was worried that it wouldn’t. Any other idea on how to get rid of flatworms?

Get some flatworm exit. It caused no stress on my corals at all and killed flatworm

TheShrimpNibbler · Oct 27, 2019

A longer freshwater dip may work. I stuck green star polyps in fw for 5-6 minutes and they are now doing fine. I wouldn’t recommend anything more than 3 minutes though and it will take several days for it to open back up.