Favia frag gone within hours

[Harris4g63]

Like the title states I had a favia frag completely turn to a skeleton within hours. I purchased from my lfs on the way home I noticed a lot of stringy slime coming off it in the bag, when I got home I rinsed off the slime in some tank water then placed it in the tank. I came back a few hours later then it was covered in brown slime omg! Rinsed off the brown slime with turkey baster only to reveal white skeleton ouch not sure what happened, all my tank parameters were in range, the frag was only in lighting for 2 hours, and the 2 other coral I have which are a small dendro and clove polyp are on the other side of the tank doing well for 2 months. Is it possible for these to come back or is done for?

 

[KJ]

Welcome to R2R.
What is your tank perimeters?

 

[Harris4g63]

Ph 8.2, Alk 9, salinity 1.025, temp 78.2,CA 400 Mg around 1300 ammonium 0,nitrite 0, nitrate between 0-5 ppm

 

[Tahoe61]

Sounds like brown jelly disease, a common malady to LPS. An iodine dilution dip can sometimes help but BJD is very aggressive. If you buy any other dips from the LFS dip them thoroughly in the dip.

 

[Harris4g63]

OK sounds good, so I was thinking about coral rx for the dip for next time if not, any suggestions would be great.

 

[Pruett-nc]

Inspect the corals in the lfs tanks and see if you notice anything funny before purchasing . Color , polyps etc.

 

[Harris4g63]

I definitely got a quick learning lesson, cause now that I learned that these things have a skeleton under the skin, I noticed a small section of skeleton exposed on a on the back side of the frag when it was still in the bag, but at the time I didn't know what it was that was probably an indication that something was already wrong with it. I just have a hard time believing that my new tank with good parameters would somehow cause brown jelly disease. Live and learn. Thanks for the advice.

 

[Tahoe61]

You're aquarium did not cause the BJD. Some say the pathogen is a protozoan, some say bacterial or perhaps BJD is a catch all term for an infection characterized by the appearance of brown jelly like mass with rapid issue necrosis. Some stressor could have set the infection up such as swings in temp, injury to the tissue of the coral. Likely the pathogen was present and the coral succumbed to it secondary to a stressor.

 

[Lonny]

OK sounds good, so I was thinking about coral rx for the dip for next time if not, any suggestions would be great.

Don't use coral rx! It'll work on lps bit I killed a red dragon frag (sps) dipping it in coral rx. Use Bayer advanced liquid insecticide;) it works great and costs less! Use 9ml per cup of tank water, dip for 15 minutes. Then rinse well in fresh tank water, for about ten minutes and repeat with new fresh tank water for another ten minutes. You can find it at home depot, Lowes, any home and garden store for about $14.

hope this helps!

 

[Harris4g63]

Awesome thanks!