What is this amd should i be concerned?

[Reefermadness13]

Woke up to a duncan looking weird today. Looks like its rotting on the right side. Any thoughts?

 

[BeejReef]

I have a guess, but let the veteran eyes have a go at it.
#reefsquad

 

[Reefermadness13]

There's a better picture

 

[Reefermadness13]

I have a guess, but let the veteran eyes have a go at it.
#reefsquad

What's your guess?

 

[BeejReef]

It could be the early stages of brown jelly. Hard to tell from the pic. The second one you posted doesn't look as bad.
Don't act on my guess. I'm quite new. Iodine is never a bad thing to have on hand though.

 

[Jon Fishman]

Looks like brown jelly, but mine is an uneducated guess...

 

[Rubblereefer]

Are you feeding it? If not start giving it a little mysis. Do you have any shrimp or crabs? They may be messing with it. My peppermint shrimp love screwing with my duncans no matter how much I feed the little jerks.

 

[MERKEY]

I'm new here as well but I'll give a go...

It could be jelly or could it be the frog/hammer you have next to in the first pic stinging it to react like that?

 

[Reefermadness13]

I do have blue hermits, I feed on a regular basis. The hammer and other neon duncan next to it seems fine. I sucked off a thick chunk of what I thought was leftover food off of it and discarded. Do you think I will have to go to any extreme measures and cut a piece off or anything like that? Or should I wait it out?

 

[MERKEY]

Dont cut until one of the established members chim in.

It doesnt look like its spread to the other heads yet.

 

[dwest]

I would move it far away from the corals next to it. I believe it’s getting stung as well.

 

[kireek]

I'm new here as well but I'll give a go...

It could be jelly or could it be the frog/hammer you have next to in the first pic stinging it to react like that?

I would move it far away from the corals next to it. I believe it’s getting stung as well.

Agreed. Definitely looks likes it is getting stung.I would more it away from the Euphyllia and keep a close eye on it. You may want to give it a quick dip too.Watch for brown jelly disease which will look like a brown film covering. Hopefully this won't happen.

 

[Reefermadness13]

Agreed. Definitely looks likes it is getting stung.I would more it away from the Euphyllia and keep a close eye on it. You may want to give it a quick dip too.Watch for brown jelly disease which will look like a brown film covering. Hopefully this won't happen.

Ok cool will do. I'm confused as to which corals can touch each other. I thought euphyllias were ok to touch eachother. Is there any place to find like a compatability chart or something. I want to start glueing more of my corals to the rock but am unsure on which can be too close to eachother.

 

[BeejReef]

Really very few can touch. Like corals can, like a goni can touch a goni.. Hammers to hammers.. They can also touch frogspawn and cristalea. Torch will kill anything. Even froggie and hammer isn't ideal.

Many lps put out sweepers.. Favia, acans, galaxea. Sps have much shorter range, but still generally kill eachother if allowed to touch.