Brown jelly or no?

[Clarinuto]

Is this the beginning of brown jelly? What do you recommend if it is?

 

[BillyReefer]

That's normal in my opinion, colors darker because that part retracted.

 

[Clarinuto]

That's normal in my opinion, colors darker because that part retracted.

I was hoping I was overanalyzing!

 

[Porpoise Hork]

Agreed, that's not brown jelly.

You will know if/when you have an outbreak. One day a given LPS coral will be all happy and extended. Then you come home and it's polyps are retracted and within a few hours there is this brownish colored mass covering the polyp(s) and the coral is sucked way into the skeleton. It's a fast killer and can decimate a coral colony in days as it is highly contagious.

I have had corals that were happy/healthy for well over a year or more and then within a 9 hour span be dead. I used to try to save them with dipping in Revive, iodine, RO rinses, etc. Nothing I have tried has managed to save a coral once it is stricken. The best I can do is break out the dremel and cut off the inflicted polyp(s), iodine the remaining and hope for the best.