Brown jelly disease on my hammer coral?

[melissasminireef]

I purchased a hammer coral from live aquaria’s divers den and it’s been doing really good, opened up real nice but i just saw this as i was looking at my tank. Is this brown jelly disease? If so how can i treat it? Thanks guys!

 

[Scorpius]

If it is brown jelly, which I can't tell from your picture if it is, I've never saved anything from this disease.

#reefsquad where you at?

 

[SuncrestReef]

It's difficult to confirm from this photo, but it does look very similar to the brown jelly I had in late 2018. I'd recommend removing that coral from your tank before it has a chance to spread. I lost about 25% of my corals as it spread before I realized what it was.

If you have access to a microscope, take a look at a sample of the jelly under magnification. Here's a video from a sample from my tank during the outbreak, showing the ciliates filled with zooxanthellae consumed from the corals.

 

[melissasminireef]

If it is brown jelly, which I can't tell from your picture if it is, I've never saved anything from this disease.

#reefsquad where you at?

Hi, it’s gone now. Would brown jelly disappear like that? Or would it be there the whole time?

 

[MERKEY]

If it was from the center it was most likely pooping.

Has the skin/flesh receded?

 

[melissasminireef]

If it was from the center it was most likely pooping.

Has the skin/flesh receded?

It looks fine! I think it was just poop

 

[Alchameth]

If it was from the center it was most likely pooping.

Has the skin/flesh receded?

Yep, if here one day gone the next... pew pew...