Brown jelly in SPS?

[krak256]

Has anyone ever encountered brown jelly in SPS? One of my colonies is having the flesh RTN in a substance that looks like brown jelly.

Is this caused by a bacterial infection? I haven’t seen bite marks or any potential pests but that could still be a possibility.

I’ve attached a video as well as a picture. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Yes it is possible, my kung pau got it once when another sps grew into it and stung it. And yes, to me it looks like brown jelly in the video.

 

[krak256]

Yes it is possible, my kung pau got it once when another sps grew into it and stung it. And yes, to me it looks like brown jelly in the video.

Ah interesting. The section where it started turning into jelly was touching another coral. I’ve been cutting away at the spots that have RTN (can’t reach all of it because of coral growth) but it continues to spread.

How did you stop the jelly?

 

[commod0re]

I just recently saved a duncan from BJD with ciprofloxacin

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

yes it is interesting both our cases caused by stings. for me, the offending sps also got brown jelly and completely died. I sucked up all the brown jelly and left it alone. But algae grew on the dead part and it had a very hard time recovering, it took many months for it to regrow over the dead part

 

[commod0re]

It could possibly be a secondary infection that stems from the original stinging injury

 

[krak256]

It could possibly be a secondary infection that stems from the original stinging injury

What kind of infection?

 

[commod0re]

What kind of infection?

bacterial would be my first guess based on what happened with my duncans, that would also be consistent with what I've read about RTN/STN

 

[ccole]

I’ve had this happen to a large montipora setosa colony after it got stung by a frogspawn. Making sure to frag off all the infected tissue (and an inch or so of healthy tissue) and dipping in iodine after, saved the coral for me. I also think it’s a bacterial infection that enters through the injury caused by the sting.

 

[krak256]

I’ve had this happen to a large montipora setosa colony after it got stung by a frogspawn. Making sure to frag off all the infected tissue (and an inch or so of healthy tissue) and dipping in iodine after, saved the coral for me. I also think it’s a bacterial infection that enters through the injury caused by the sting.

Unfortunately I couldn't save the colony as I couldnt cut back far enough. The infection spread throughout