Brown Jelly Disease ID

[unbeknownst]

Torches are receded, and the water is dirty right now to fight dinos. I lost a polyp of the green torch over a couple of days. Although I believe the black out I did for the dinos did not help it.

 

[threebuoys]

BJD can be a disaster.

These are links to a couple of my posts about my experience a couple of years ago.

Killed Duncans overnight, I removed, dunked it in Hydrogen peroxide, moved to an isolation tank. I treated with cipro last night. It has come back even stronger.

File may be too big. If so I'll put on youtube.

Over the past 8 weeks I have experienced numerous rapid death events for established corals in my 125 gallon reef aquarium.

The first event occurred on a 10 polyp duncan colony. Overnight, half of the colony died completely. After the second night, the other half died.

I posted related to the problem and one suggestion was brown jelly disease. The event was incredible. I removed the rock where the colony was attached and placed it in a established QT hoping to at least isolate the bacteria from my display tank.

Since then, I lost two other duncan colonies, two large hammers, a torch, and a cyphastria. All were located far apart from each other. With each, I removed the colony from the DT to a QT. In several cases I tried the cipro treatment with absolutely no impact. The deaths just occur too quickly. Understanding the concerns regarding cipro, I doubt I will try it again unless more evidence about its efficacy becomes available.

I've searched extensively on R2R for threads that might offer treatment solutions. I admit my searches may not have found valuable threads. Everyone wants to help and always ask questions about water quality. Problem is, no one seems to have a solution that can be effectively implemented when the rapid death begins. I still have a lot of established corals that look fine. And, by all means I diligently maintain good water conditions. I am suspicious that the problem arrived on one of two coral shipments I received several weeks before the first death.

So back to my titled question

We have a forum dedicated to treatment of fish diseases that receives 100's of questions every week. We have a fish medic team that tries to answer these questions.

Do we have any Coral disease experts who could provide valuable information to diagnose and treat coral ailments that go beyond water quality?

I'm fearful I will continue to lose a colony every couple of weeks until I have none remaining.

 

[banik]

BJD can be a disaster.

These are links to a couple of my posts about my experience a couple of years ago.

Did you ever come to a conclusion or cause, other than, "BJD is a symptom of an infection that can be caused for lots of reasons, including stress, parameter misalignment, and possibly phase of the moon." ?

 

[threebuoys]

Did you ever come to a conclusion or cause, other than, "BJD is a symptom of an infection that can be caused for lots of reasons, including stress, parameter misalignment, and possibly phase of the moon." ?

No, drives me crazy. I had hoped someone with more experience and knowledge would respond but it didn't happen.

I tried cipro as a last resort, but the BJD moves so quickly that treatment was hopeless. BJD is much worse than RTN or STN events. I can't find anything definitive on the cause and treatment for any of these three other than coral warfare when two aggressive species get too close to each other.

 

[unbeknownst]

Hey, I just want to know if it is bjd or not and how to identify it.

 

[threebuoys]

Hey, I just want to know if it is bjd or not and how to identify it.

If you look at the video I included in my earlier post, you can see a perfect example of BJD. Your photos were a little difficult to assess. Could have been any of the issues I mentioned because all cause coral tissue to rot away.

 

[Shirak]

Photos need to be in white light. Based on your tale of events there is a good chance the one on the left lost a head to BJD. Couple days is all it takes..

right one, can't see much from the photo