Brown Jelly Disease attacked birds nest now after acropora. I checked the water parameters everything was good, but alkalinity was lower 1. If I were to dose it back to around 4 do you think it will fight off the brown jelly infection? Anyone have any experience with this? If the problem continues to worsen by decaying off all polyps. How can I remove it out of my tank? It is glued on to a piece of rock with zoanthids mushrooms surrounding it.
Brown Jelly Disease attacked birds nest now after acropora
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How is that helpful in anyway? My tank is well established. My birds nest caught it from no where. Mike from Marine Designs even caught it in his show tank and said it can happen in the most legit tank. Which is considerable with mine. It's unfortunate that it happen, I would like helpful suggestions.
What I am most concerned about right now is removing the infected acropora, I feel like the sooner I take it out the better off my near by corals are from catching it as well.
Edit: Guess I will just rip out my acropora and frag the polyps that remain alive. wish me luck.
Edit: Guess I will just rip out my acropora and frag the polyps that remain alive. wish me luck.
Which ever it is. I chipped off some good frags, and ripped the base off the rock that was brown and slimy. I'm worried about my dented coral brain. I never studies all my corals so close until now. But this coral either is slowly dieing as well or just might be being stung by the mushrooms. I dipped in fresh water for about 30 seconds. Hopefully if there were any infection it would of killed it.
I assume your alkalinity is 1 meq. That is about 2.9 dKH, which is horribly low. I suggest a series of water changes to raise it up, and weekly testing with weekly dosing to maintain it. What test kits do you use? I'm surprised your other parameters are good.
Brown Jelly disease is not really an SPS issue as far as I know, at least I've never heard it used in conjunction with SPS like seratiopora or acropora, usually it is associated with Euphyllias like hammer coral, or a coral like an Elegance. Use a pair of wire cutters or pliers to remove the BN from the tank. BN is pretty brittle, so you could just break off branch after branch of it until you are down to almost nothing.
Nothing helps LPS with BJD like an iodine dip. 40 drops Lugol's per gallon and dip for 8-12 minutes.
Your SPS issues are probably r/t your low alkalinity, if I had to guess. Acros like stability and consistency r/t calcium, alkalinity and magnesium IME. Usually, that involves regular testing and dosing either with 2 part or the use of a calcium reactor.
Thanks, I reread that repeatedly debating in how to handle the situation. I feel like my decisions was rational since my birds nest caught the infection 2 days ago while everything else around it was fine. This morning my acropra had it, getting worst the longer i waited and more chances of other corals of catching its infection. I pray tomorrow there are no more signs of this.
I spoke to Mike from Marine Designs, he mention it to be RPM which is rapid something. I strongly agree. I usually do a 40 gallon water change every two weeks, and test with Hagen test kit. Would you recommend doing a 20 gallon water change tomorrow, and follow it up with dosing. I already hit it with alkalinity today.
Mike probably said RTN, like Bill states above. I'd do a 40 gallon WC and dose some alkalinity builder, but don't try to raise it too fast. I don't know if there is a rule or not, but maybe 1 dKH a day and try to maintain about 2.5-3.93 meq/l (7-11 dKH). Test KH after your WC, as you might add a decent bit of KH with the new salt, and might not need to dose much, if any.
You might also take a sample of your water to Marine Designs and have them test it to compare with your Hagen Test Kit results. Not sure how many Reefers use Hagen Kits. Most use Salifert or Elos, IME. You may also find that test kit error comes into play and your water is not quite as bad as you think. My advice assumes your test results are correct, however.
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