What's going on with my frogspawn?

JCSReefing · Aug 3, 2016

I just did a tank transfer from a 40g temp tank back to my 70g tank. Been up and running now for about 1-2 months and I didn't notice it right away for some reason but looked at one of my frog spawn corals and notices one head seems to be skeleton like and another on its way it seems. what the heck happened. 3 months ago it was growing good and healthy in my 40g which I did have it off to the side rather than in the middle bottom in the sand currently on my 70g which would be the only diffrence.

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Joeganja · Aug 4, 2016

Have you checked water parameters? If you have any other lps do you see any sign of brown jelly?

JCSReefing · Aug 4, 2016

I havnt noticed any other issues, just the fact that I went on vacation for 2 wks and came back to a tank full of green hair alge everywhere. And I mean everywhere. So I scrubbed and plucked it down the best I could and bought a heck of a clean up crew which seems that mostly gone. Except the overflow that I still need to work on. I will snap some other pics of all my other corals today.

Puppy · Aug 4, 2016

Actually it seems you've had quite a bit happen

reeferfoxx · Aug 4, 2016

jcs401 said:
I havnt noticed any other issues, just the fact that I went on vacation for 2 wks and came back to a tank full of green hair alge everywhere. And I mean everywhere. So I scrubbed and plucked it down the best I could and bought a heck of a clean up crew which seems that mostly gone. Except the overflow that I still need to work on. I will snap some other pics of all my other corals today.

Dead clean up crew can increase phosphates which would explain the hair algae. You need to test your water parameters. let us know. All the while mixing up fresh bucket for a 30% water change. You still have a chance of saving what is left. Plus euphyllia is known for creating new heads after something stressful happens.

JCSReefing · Aug 10, 2016

Here are my parimiters. Doesn't appear that anything is outta wack too bad;

Also;
Hardness is 9-dkh. 161.1ppm

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Please let me know what y'all think!

reeferfoxx · Aug 10, 2016

Might be water flow. Looking back at your pics, it looks like the water flow is beating down on them?

JCSReefing · Sep 13, 2016

Ok so now I just do not get it. I moved both frogspawns to the bottom left side of my tank with moderate flow and testes all my levels again to be sure and nothing is out of wack.

Calcium: 500
Alk: 8dkh
Nitrate & nitrite:0
Ammonia:0
PH:8.1
phosphate:0

I gave them both a dip in coral RX in hopes it would help and did not. They are still slowly withering away and closing up and after a week or so more the head will be a skeleton.
Does anyone else know what I could try so they don't die?
PLEASE

JCSReefing · Sep 19, 2016

This is the inside after I broke off the dead pieces of my frog spawn in hopes it will not all die. Does this look like brown jelly disease possibly? If so any ideas how to treat so it doesn't wipe out my entire tank?

JCSReefing · Oct 3, 2016

Branespikin · Oct 3, 2016

Do you notice any brown stringy stuff comming from the heads? Id suck it up with turkey baster not blow it off. I blew it off not knowing better and just spread it over my tank. I had this happen to me last year. It was brown jelly. Lost hammer with over 40 heads, frigspawn 30 heads, all my torches like 5 of them and my duncans like 25 heads. All gone in few weeks.

Reef Bed · Oct 3, 2016

Brown jelly causes the head to basically melt and emits a horrendous smell. Its also very contagious. Its a bacterial infection. Its close to the smell of rotten eggs. You should try an iodine dip, if its anything bacterial. Cut the bad heads off. The frogspawn could have been in a nutrient rich tank and switched to a nutrient stripped (clean) tank. Just speculating. May have gone to shock and is dropping its heads.

JCSReefing · Oct 4, 2016

Reef Bed said:
Brown jelly causes the head to basically melt and emits a horrendous smell. Its also very contagious. Its a bacterial infection. Its close to the smell of rotten eggs. You should try an iodine dip, if its anything bacterial. Cut the bad heads off. The frogspawn could have been in a nutrient rich tank and switched to a nutrient stripped (clean) tank. Just speculating. May have gone to shock and is dropping its heads.

Well the heads don't seem to melt per day and it takes about 2 weeks or so for the head to turn to just skeleton. It was a frog spawn with about 12 heads and 3 turned to skeleton so I broke all those off and left just prices of good heads. It noticed that on the last peice I had left 4 heads and now on that one it's starting again. Just don't understand it and it's been slowly happening not like super rapid, which brown jelly would be much faster wouldn't it??