Is that brown jelly?

[Notsolostfish]

Okay so heres the story my tank is 2 years old. I seeded live rock at the beginning. Everything going good, i was able to grow hammers from a single head to colonies. During those 2 years i encounter those brown substance which im assuming it’s brown jelly.

Now i am a person who LOVES to test, i mean i am on it, i test my nutrients every few days i have hanna all in one. I mean anything wrong goes with my tank, and i am genuinely on it. I tested my parameters, i am not else sure where this is coming from.

I also send an ICP every few months, to check if anything i can’t test for. I also sent one yesterday my parameters going to be listed below, but i am genuinely tired. I also i can’t understand if what im seeing is dead rotten polyps or brown jelly.

In this first video you can tell this knicks who was splitting into 4 heads, the polyps are retacted. It didn’t seem like i caught it in time. The next day i found that brown substance. Took the torch out,dipped it in chemicclean, restor, and iodine. Cleaned it with a turkey blaster. Woke up the next day, and i see this from the left over polyps.

Thats where the tentacles are not extended u can tell its infected



I am sort of new to the hobby, i didn’t know that u shouldnt let those brown substances fly inside your tank. While i was removing the torch, some of them flew inside the tank. Its provably a costly mistake. Can someone here for the life of me tell me if what im seeing is brown jelly or rotten dead polyps?

As a new reefer, whos putting all the hardwork in this tank, i want to know what can i do beside making everything stable in my tank to prevent this. Also what dips beside what i used is effective to brown jelly. My second question is also do i need to treat the whole tank, since the brown substance flew inside the tank?


Parameters:
Alk:9.1 (stable) i dose afr on a redsea doser
Cal:420
Mag:1420
Phosphate:0.24ppm
Nitrate:6.00ppm
Ph:8.26 during the end of the day.

 

[Nasty_Goblin]

Others will confirm or deny, but that looks like BJD to me. Are you running carbon?

From what I've read, you'll want to run carbon and remove the affected frag. BJD can spread between torches/hammers rather quickly. So it's likely best to cut your losses if the dip isn't having a positive effect.

I believe you did the right thing with the iodine, pretty sure it's the ingredient to look for when treating something like this.

 

[Notsolostfish]

Others will confirm or deny, but that looks like BJD to me. Are you running carbon?

From what I've read, you'll want to run carbon and remove the affected frag. BJD can spread between torches/hammers rather quickly. So it's likely best to cut your losses if the dip isn't having a positive effect.

I believe you did the right thing with the iodine, pretty sure it's the ingredient to look for when treating something like this.

I am running carbon yes. In fact i just changed the carbon right now.

 

[Nasty_Goblin]

I am running carbon yes. In fact i just changed the carbon right now.

Then you should be fine. You can do a water change to be safe.

If only one of the heads is affected you can remove the diseased on and hope the other one recovers. I would at least move it away from the other torches.

I've also noticed that fungia can be affected by BJD, but that may be anecdotal.

@Mr. Mojo Rising
@Gumbies R Us

Only because their advice has been instrumental to my own tank.

 

[Notsolostfish]

Then you should be fine. You can do a water change to be safe.

If only one of the heads is affected you can remove the diseased on and hope the other one recovers. I would at least move it away from the other torches.

I've also noticed that fungia can be affected by BJD, but that may be anecdotal.

@Mr. Mojo Rising
@Gumbies R Us

Only because their advice has been instrumental to my own tank.

My main concern was when removing the torch, bjd was flying around my tank. I changed carbon though. And i have UV running

 

[ryudo80]

Did the bjd spread? Just wondering what happened to your tank after the bjd issue occured. I'm going through it now and trying to figure out what to do.

 

[JGT]

That’s def BJD. While it can spread if a piece lands on another coral I believe that a lot of it is coincidental. Whatever infected the first coral, will then infect other corals, not from a piece landing on another coral.