Whats wrong with my torch?

[Triple.T]

Everything's been fine, all my other corals and fish are doing fine. All my parameters are in the right range...came home to this, whole thing is gone except about 12 polyps

 

[Kellie in CA]

I've not experienced it first hand, but it kinda looks like pictures I've seen of brown jelly disease.

Sorry, that really sucks.

 

[eggplantparrot]

I'm just parrotting others here:

get it out quick BUT don't let the jelly stuff blow around the tank, it can spread to other lps.

 

[Twìsted~Coral]

Brown jelly disease!!!!!! Your torch will die and could spread to other coral

 

[Nicholas Dushynsky]

I would say its brown jelly, it will kill the coral quick, I advise to Suck the jelly off of it with a Turkey baster/pipette or siphon off with air line tube, do this with the flow off so it has less chance of spreading. Then i would remove the coral as it's a goner I'm afraid. I lost a 10 year old wall hammer, it was big considering how slow they grow, but it was dead with in a week and I'm glad it didnt take my other hammers out.

 

[Triple.T]

Thanks everyone, I googled Brown Jelly Disease. This in fact looks exactly like my issue. I removed the plug with the powerhead off ( it was glued ) . When it dislodged some of the gunk came off and wanted to float in the tank. I quickly grabbed my fine mesh net and got everything out. Thanks so much everyone for quick responses. Hopefully I got it all and it doesnt take out my hammer or other corals.

 

[Nicholas Dushynsky]

Fingers crossed, You should be ok.

 

[El_Guapo13]

Definitely brown jelly disease. You might want to do a water change to, just to be safe.

And make sure to keep an eye on your other corals, especially other LPS corals.

 

[Gareth elliott]

Iodine dips have helped some with stopping spreading after cutting the infected heads off. also https://www.allivet.com/p-5528-fish-flox-ciprofloxacin.aspx cipro has shown some effect on some corals.