Brown jelly after holliday

Schramstein · Aug 3, 2023

Hi there fellow reefers, just got home from my hollidays and a disaster has appeared lost about 2 whole colonies of euphyllia because of brown jelly. I am sure it is brown jelly aa it spreaded very fast, and the brown mud or however you call it was covering the whole corals heads.

I cut off all the infected heads, some heads are losing flesh and open less so also might be infected.

Dipped these corals in peroxide 3% solution
And after i am now using cyproflaxine antibiotics on the tank.

So i found somewhere on this forum the thread to dose 3 times this medicin ,but the euphyllia are still not very happy how long will it take, and how can i avoid this bacterial infection coming back and killing all my torches and hammers?

What causes this problem?

I hope i can save some, so all help is welcome.

Many thanks

Remy

Mr. Mojo Rising · Aug 3, 2023

brown jelly is bad. I have a candy cane colony which got brown jelly and recovered, but in my other cases I always lost the whole colony. Euphyllia is sensative, I would be surprised if it can recover.

Important to find out why they have brown jelly, happy corals normally won't get it. All my cases come from coral stings, and for me it never jumped from coral to coral.

Schramstein · Aug 3, 2023

Thank you for your reply, actually they looked very happy and healthy especially the euphyllia did not show any problems and than booom the bomb hit the tank.

I have beem gone for 2 weeks and during first week one colony got vanished , the caretaker did not notice it(not a very experienced reefer) and in the second week i got some pictures from another colony losing heads, so i went more early home as planned to check the tank. And it is still in 2 colonies active.

On the pictures the main tank and last picture same system but small tank where the damaged or infected heads are.

Its a pain and i do not know how i could have avoided it, or save the rest.

I have gathered all the medicines allready a long time before this occured in case it might have happened sooner or later.