What is on my torch?!?!? Help!!!

[Currdawg12]

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[45ZoaGarden]

Looks like the torch was possibly pooping. Try blowing it away with a turkey baster. If it comes back, you might have some sort of bacteria/ disease

 

[Currdawg12]

Looks like the torch was possibly pooping. Try blowing it away with a turkey baster. If it comes back, you might have some sort of bacteria/ disease

I don’t think it is pooped cause it killed one of the heads completely

 

[manlykady]

try to remove the stuff before it damages the rest of the tank

 

[Sosuke]

Maybe brown jelly since you said it killed a head, I almost lost a torch to it the other day

 

[45ZoaGarden]

try to remove the stuff before it damages the rest of the tank

+1

 

[Currdawg12]

Maybe brown jelly since you said it killed a head, I almost lost a torch to it the other day

How’d you get rid of it ?

 

[Reefer40b]

slurp it up with a turkey baster, although that whole torch it probably going to go up in smoke. Iodine dips can help sometimes with infection

 

[Wen]

I would remove head that is infected ASAP. Turkey baste gently other heads that have the goo on them.
Keep water parameters top notch.
The gapping mouth is unusual IMO.

 

[tupes]

+1 for brown jelly disease

 

[C. Eymann]

Briwn jelly fir sure, Turn off your pumps and gently bag it underwater to remove to avoid it getting the dead/infected tissue everywhere.

Either frag off the effected head or seal it with epoxy /glue. Then perform a lugols bath before returning the remaining heads/colony to the tank.

Best of luck!

 

[Sosuke]

I dipped the coral in lougals solution sorry for the late reply and blasted with a turkey baster I would suggest if it survives add it to a separate tank so you don't infect other corals

 

[GabeM]

cut off everything that has touched the bjd and toss it. Cancer for LPS

 

[Currdawg12]

After further thinking! I just bought a goni last month it died from the same looking stuff about two weeks ago! But thinking it was just algae i didn’t treat anything. So I’m thinking that’s how it got into the tank. I coral RX dipped it then placed it in a separate 10 gallon with nothing in it! Also did a half a cap of iodine. Cut the infected heads off as well!

 

[Currdawg12]

I’m starting a water change bucket now and changing all filter socks

 

[Sosuke]

I’m starting a water change bucket now and changing all filter socks

Sounds good! sorry about your Goni, hope the torch pulls through

 

[Lapras]

BJD for sure. They don't appear healthy at all -- what are your tank parameters? The only way I've ever beaten BJD was with Chloramphenicol bath overnight. You have to get it via RX however through a vet.

 

[Currdawg12]

Update: he or she had 8 big beautiful heads and was my first coral. But we are down to two now and I’m hoping I can get it to survive just a little longer! But I’m gonna post pictures of his or hers life in memory of him or her! Just to help ease the death!

 

[Sosuke]

Update: he or she had 8 big beautiful heads and was my first coral. But we are down to two now and I’m hoping I can get it to survive just a little longer! But I’m gonna post pictures of his or hers life in memory of him or her! Just to help ease the death!

Sorry to hear about that, maybe try fragging the living heads off but wait for others advice. I fragged my dying torch (From bjd) and hoping it lives