Brown jelly disease on my hammer coral?

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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!

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

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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.

 
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