Prestonlove55
Community Member
Pretty sure I have brown jelly on my entire euphyllia garden 30+ heads of hammer and frogspawn. Considering running a chemiclean cycle. I also have heard a lot about doing ciprofloxacin as an antibiotic microdosing in your tank. If anyone has every used it to treat your tank as an antibiotic plz let me know. So far what I have done is the following.
Steps in order:
1. Brush the corals skeleton with a soft tooth brush that was dipped in 3% hydrogen peroxide.
2. Did a 1 minute dip in 3 parts tank water 1 part 3% hydrogen peroxide. (12oz tank water, 4 oz hydrogen peroxide)
3. Transferred them in a container with 48oz tank water and 10ml ab+ for 10 minutes
4. Transferred to container 3 with 64oz tank water, 4 caps (20ml) of KoralMD, AB+ coral nutrition (10ml) for 10 minutes
5. Transferred to container 4 last container with 16oz tank water and AB+ Coral Nutrition (5ml). For 10 minutes to re aclimate corals back to tank.
6. Put corals back in tank.
Photos/videos:
1. Full picture of Tank 2 weeks before possible brown jelly.
2. Euphyllia Garden.
3. Picture of tank after spreading out and putting corals back in my tank.
4. Picture of the thread I was reading about the antibiotic.
5. Picture of possible brown jelly on a frogspawn under whites.
6. Picture of possible brown jelly on a frogspawn under Blues.
7. Picture of possible brown jelly on hammer in container before process I did.
Tank Size and Equipment:
-45 gallon JBJ Cube (Up and running on September 14th)
-AI Prime 16 (2 of them)
-hang-on Protein Skimmer
-100 Gal worth of Chemipure Blue
-50 Gallons of Chemipure Elite
-200 Gallons worth of Purigen
- Several Pieces of Tidal Phosphate/Nitrate Removal Filter Pad
-80 Gallons of Phosguard
-Nero 5 (set on 1% at 1,100 GPH)
-Off brand wave pump 400 GPH
-In tank refugium with 50w pink grow light
Tank Paramaters and dosing:
Salinity- 1.025 ppm
Ammonia- 0 ppm
Nitrite- 0 ppm
Nitrate- 5-10 ppm
Phosphate- .2 ppm
Calcium- 450 ppm
Alkalinity- 9.2 ppm
Dose:
-10ml of AB+ Coral Nutrition (Daily)
-5ml of Bright-well Restore (Daily)
Fish/Inverts:
-5 Purple Fire Fish
-1 six-line wrasse
-1 Cleaner Shrimp
-2 Peppermint Shrimp
-1 Yashia Goby Paired with tiger pistol Shrimp
-40+ Snails (Margarita, Cone Head, Bumble bee trochas, Nassarius, Conchs)
-30+ Hermits (Blue tip, Zebra, Halloween, Blue Knuckle, Yellow tip, Red tip)
-3 Sandsifting Starfish
Feeding Schedule:
-Marine S Pellets in the morning
-1/2 cube mysis, 1/2 cube coral gumbo. 3 drops of selcon and 2 drops of Kents marine Garlic (Evening)
-Coral Delite (every other evening)
Corals in Tank:
-Hammer (25+ Heads)
-Frogspawn (10+ Heads)
-Acans (5 Small Colonies)
-Lobo (1 Piece)
-Acropora (4 colonies)
-Millepora (1 Piece)
-Candy Cane (20+ Heads)
-War Paint Scolymia
-Ultra Trachy
-Posylapora Colony
-Mushrooms (Rhodactis, Ricordea)
- Encrusting Chalice
-Montipora (3 colonies)
-Zoanthids/Paly (around 10 different colonies)
- Orange Short Tentacle Plate
-Lavender Tip Duncan
-Blasto (6 Heads)
-Favia Colony
-Ghonipora (3 Colonies)
After putting them all back in my tank I have spread them out to where even in peak light no one will be touching. If I end up running chemiclean I plan on giving the corals 24 hours before starting the cycle to kinda let them balance out some after all the dipping. Please let me know your thoughts and advice. Any and all advice will help! Thank you for your time and thoughts.
Steps in order:
1. Brush the corals skeleton with a soft tooth brush that was dipped in 3% hydrogen peroxide.
2. Did a 1 minute dip in 3 parts tank water 1 part 3% hydrogen peroxide. (12oz tank water, 4 oz hydrogen peroxide)
3. Transferred them in a container with 48oz tank water and 10ml ab+ for 10 minutes
4. Transferred to container 3 with 64oz tank water, 4 caps (20ml) of KoralMD, AB+ coral nutrition (10ml) for 10 minutes
5. Transferred to container 4 last container with 16oz tank water and AB+ Coral Nutrition (5ml). For 10 minutes to re aclimate corals back to tank.
6. Put corals back in tank.
Photos/videos:
1. Full picture of Tank 2 weeks before possible brown jelly.
2. Euphyllia Garden.
3. Picture of tank after spreading out and putting corals back in my tank.
4. Picture of the thread I was reading about the antibiotic.
5. Picture of possible brown jelly on a frogspawn under whites.
6. Picture of possible brown jelly on a frogspawn under Blues.
7. Picture of possible brown jelly on hammer in container before process I did.
Tank Size and Equipment:
-45 gallon JBJ Cube (Up and running on September 14th)
-AI Prime 16 (2 of them)
-hang-on Protein Skimmer
-100 Gal worth of Chemipure Blue
-50 Gallons of Chemipure Elite
-200 Gallons worth of Purigen
- Several Pieces of Tidal Phosphate/Nitrate Removal Filter Pad
-80 Gallons of Phosguard
-Nero 5 (set on 1% at 1,100 GPH)
-Off brand wave pump 400 GPH
-In tank refugium with 50w pink grow light
Tank Paramaters and dosing:
Salinity- 1.025 ppm
Ammonia- 0 ppm
Nitrite- 0 ppm
Nitrate- 5-10 ppm
Phosphate- .2 ppm
Calcium- 450 ppm
Alkalinity- 9.2 ppm
Dose:
-10ml of AB+ Coral Nutrition (Daily)
-5ml of Bright-well Restore (Daily)
Fish/Inverts:
-5 Purple Fire Fish
-1 six-line wrasse
-1 Cleaner Shrimp
-2 Peppermint Shrimp
-1 Yashia Goby Paired with tiger pistol Shrimp
-40+ Snails (Margarita, Cone Head, Bumble bee trochas, Nassarius, Conchs)
-30+ Hermits (Blue tip, Zebra, Halloween, Blue Knuckle, Yellow tip, Red tip)
-3 Sandsifting Starfish
Feeding Schedule:
-Marine S Pellets in the morning
-1/2 cube mysis, 1/2 cube coral gumbo. 3 drops of selcon and 2 drops of Kents marine Garlic (Evening)
-Coral Delite (every other evening)
Corals in Tank:
-Hammer (25+ Heads)
-Frogspawn (10+ Heads)
-Acans (5 Small Colonies)
-Lobo (1 Piece)
-Acropora (4 colonies)
-Millepora (1 Piece)
-Candy Cane (20+ Heads)
-War Paint Scolymia
-Ultra Trachy
-Posylapora Colony
-Mushrooms (Rhodactis, Ricordea)
- Encrusting Chalice
-Montipora (3 colonies)
-Zoanthids/Paly (around 10 different colonies)
- Orange Short Tentacle Plate
-Lavender Tip Duncan
-Blasto (6 Heads)
-Favia Colony
-Ghonipora (3 Colonies)
After putting them all back in my tank I have spread them out to where even in peak light no one will be touching. If I end up running chemiclean I plan on giving the corals 24 hours before starting the cycle to kinda let them balance out some after all the dipping. Please let me know your thoughts and advice. Any and all advice will help! Thank you for your time and thoughts.
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