brown jelly on my brain...

tgp4274 · Jul 3, 2015

about a 1/4 is gone and am thinking its jelly desise...
so how can I fix it???

saltyphish · Jul 3, 2015

Not sure how brains react to iodine, but when my torch got bjd I dipped it in lugol's. If it is bjd I would remove it from that tank to another if you have one to keep it from spreading. Seems like this is one of the toughest ones to cure.

Daniel@R2R · Jul 6, 2015

I did a peroxide dip on my blasto when it got brown jelly, and it fully recovered.

Shep · Jul 6, 2015

Good luck, I hope your coral survives!

Tab28 · Jul 6, 2015

What type of brain, favia or trachy? Brown jelly is nasty. Depending on coral, there may be no hope. Just stop it from spreading. Peroxide worked for me. Read up on the mixture ratio and time of dip.

edosan · Jul 6, 2015

Following, just lost a Hammer on JBD...:(

burbon44s · Jul 6, 2015

Dumb question, how can you tell its bjd?
I lost a long tentical plate coral a couple days after I bought it.
It looked like brown slime but how to tell for sure? Or did it just die? Whole coral was dead in less then 12 hours

RicordeaMadness · Jul 6, 2015

burbon44s said:
Dumb question, how can you tell its bjd?
I lost a long tentical plate coral a couple days after I bought it.
It looked like brown slime but how to tell for sure? Or did it just die? Whole coral was dead in less then 12 hours

That sounds like bjd just had my purple torch die from bjd killed really fast.

FL_Reefer · Jul 6, 2015

Cut off as much as you can and may survive, if it is BJD. Do you have any pics?

Tab28 · Jul 6, 2015

Brown jelly looks like thin layer of tan colored slime. It comes off easily with slight water movement. Be careful not to get it into tank. Carefully take out coral and use turkey baster to blow off the slime. Then dip. Where slime is the coral below it is dead. Only unaffected flesh can be saved. Stress or injuries will open the door for brown jelly.