BlueBuddha
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So I believe I have had my first attack of brown jelly disease (BJD) and it hurt, it hurt real bad. In a matter of 3 days I lost
6 head bicolor hammer
Nice little wall hammer
2 orange Octo
2 head green frogspawn
2 head blue tip frogspawn
2 head purple hammer.
There were in a nano ( I know, know) but I have been running nanos for a few years with pretty good success. This is the biggest loss to date for me. I have spent hours staring at the tank trying to figure out WHY all my levels appear to be good.
Ph 8.2
Cal 450
Alk 8.9
mag I think was 1250-1240
Phos .1 (high)
Nitrate 10
Nitrite 0
Amonioa o
Salt 1.24
Temp 78
My thoughts is I put a struggling acan in the tank a little more then a week back. Stuck it in a low flow low light spot to see if it would recover. It came out of my softie tank (zoas and shrooms)
Tuesday I upgraded a pump and changed my flow pattern. Everything seemed to adapt nicely. The next day all my LPS (frog, octo, hammers and my torches)
All seemed angrey contracted but not sucked in all the way. I thought maybe the flow so I turned it down. The next day they looked worse and that’s when I noticed brown junk on most of them. Yesterday in a desperate attempt to save hundreds of dollars in corals I dipped them in a 40/60 porixide dip. The story in my head is that the acan had the start of BJD (I tossed it) and when the flow ticked my LPS off the jelly attacked. The lights are not on yet but I fear I just have really clean dead coral now
The glass half full it looks like my 3 torch’s May survive but nothing else.
I have a ton of zoas, fish, crabs and a star fish that have been perfectly happy through all of this. So strange to me.
The pic is a quick cell shot right at the beginning now all I see is white skeleton
Wicked disappointing
