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There are two heads that look like slime disease. Should I just go ahead and remove those heads so the others don't get it? See pic.


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Quickly and carefully! I recently lost several torches, 2 acan colonies, and a hammer to it. Carefully symphonic off as much of the sludge as you can with an airline hose. The carefully pull the whole thing out of your tank. The last thing you want is that nasty bacteria floating around to other corals. Cut the bad ones off, the iodine dip the rest. Good luck!
 
What Eric said.

Do you know what caused it? Is that a new acquisition? Usually that funk spreads to other Euphyllia sp. (Torch, Hammer, Frogspawn). Occasionally to other corals but usually stays within that family.

It looks like it's in the sand - is that where you keep it? If so, I'd move it up into the rock work after you've pruned/dipped it. It's possible that the sand is irritating it, they prefer to be higher up, in my experience.

Hope you save what's left - Euphyllia are some of my favourites.

Jenn
 
JennM;939246 wrote: What Eric said.

Do you know what caused it? Is that a new acquisition? Usually that funk spreads to other Euphyllia sp. (Torch, Hammer, Frogspawn). Occasionally to other corals but usually stays within that family.

It looks like it's in the sand - is that where you keep it? If so, I'd move it up into the rock work after you've pruned/dipped it. It's possible that the sand is irritating it, they prefer to be higher up, in my experience.

Hope you save what's left - Euphyllia are some of my favourites.

Jenn



Hello Jenn. Yes, it is a new acquisition and they are on a small rock that is on the sand. I took them out and took the two infected heads off and cleaned as much of the slime off as I could. I didn't have some iodine dip, but I did have some coral dip from BRS so I used that. I then fragged off one of the other heads and glued to a disk and out it higher on the rock while the others stayed on the sand to see if I noticed a difference. It does seem like the one higher up is happier and extending out further. I am going to move the others up there now.

Thanks for your input. You too Eric!
 
Good job. Yes the BRS Coral Dip will work too. Coral dips are disinfectants and the idea is to kill off pathogens, which is what you did.

Keep us posted on how it goes.

It's a good practice to dip all new corals before placing in the display. It won't guarantee you will never have a sickly one, but it does help to prevent problems.

Jenn
 
JennM;939307 wrote: Good job. Yes the BRS Coral Dip will work too. Coral dips are disinfectants and the idea is to kill off pathogens, which is what you did.

Keep us posted on how it goes.

It's a good practice to dip all new corals before placing in the display. It won't guarantee you will never have a sickly one, but it does help to prevent problems.

Jenn

+1 its also good practice to dip corals after fragging especially if you had to cut through tissue such as with chalice, favia or any other coral where the polyps are connected by tissue.
 
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