Help Identifying Potential Brown Jelly on Torch

[Meatball_reef]

Hey all -

Come to you with another question. Noticed my torch hasn't been opening up in awhile and just saw this today. I thought it was just algae at first and put it in front of a powerhead to clean it off. It just made the torch retract, but the brown stuff stayed. I'm wondering if this is BJD, as I haven't dealt with this before.

Thanks!

 

[laverda]

It does look like brown jelly. Ideally you want to take the torch out and shake it virgously in a cup or bowel of tank water to remove the jelly. Then a dip in some water with iodine before putting it back in the tank. The jelly could spread to other corals if you clean it off in the tank. Good luck!

 

[elysics]

Yes, it looks like brown jelly, but hard disagree on the shaking around. Take it out, cut off the affected head as cleanly and with as little movement as possible, then dip in iodine, then rinse in a cup of tankwater you discard afterwards, then put it back in the tank or better yet a quarantine tank.

You are lucky if any heads survive, might even be a good idea to cut off and separate the not affected one in the middle as well.