Help! Torch with what seems to be BJD

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Hello so I just finished setting up my new 125 display about 3 months ago. Added the first 2 batch’s of fish along with the News from my old tank along with a few mushrooms and 2 Kenya trees. 2 or 3 weeks ago I went a lotta bit crazy and bought a ton of euphyllia (torches, hammers and frog spawns) they were all dipped in iodine and reef primer along with changing out the frap plus. They all seemed happy until Today i noticed something brown and stringy coming out of 1 of the torch colonies. I few of the brown string things few in the water column, i immediately took the torch out and dipped back into reef primer and iodine plus i ordered some cipro and brightwell Koral recover to treat the tank. (Hopefully should be here by Wednesday). So in the meantime is there anything I can do to help them out? They were all fine yesterday idk what happened. The lights had already turned blue by the time I took the photo

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Err in other words, white light pics will help diagnose.
Yeah I know the light was already turning blue it was like 2 hours ago while I was feeling the tank. I tired and took another photo but it also sucked. I was like a brown string mucus coming out of the center of the coral
 

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Looked something similar to this (this is NOT
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my coral) but looked almost identical
 
Still looks like poo. Brown jelly, you'd see polyps flying off, skeleton exposed. And the torch would be just melting.
Example... not my photo

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Still looks like poo. Brown jelly, you'd see polyps flying off, skeleton exposed. And the torch would be just melting.
Example... not my photo

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Not that’s not how it looks, mine are all pretty open and puffy. Just had that stringy brown stuff coming out the middle of 1 of the heads
 
Not that’s not how it looks, mine are all pretty open and puffy. Just had that stringy brown stuff coming out the middle of 1 of the heads
So the torch took a poo. No need to dip the poo. It's part of coral nature too.
 
So the torch took a poo. No need to dip the poo. It's part of coral nature too.
if I knew it was poo I would’ve helped it wipe lol i thought it was BJD and i started freaking out
 
You'll be seeing a lot more scares. Lots of lps go poo. Bjd isn't a joke. Pull a questionable coral you think that is infected. Smell questionable coral. If it smells like rotting death, you got bjd.

Except acropora and some softies. They seriously stink.
 

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