Scoly die off

[Cabo31]

I have lost 4 scoly in the last week, one after another. They have been in the tank for a long time and I cannot figure out why. The mouth opens and then the flesh just peels off the skeleton within a day.
Help...any ideas? Could it be bacterial? Parasite? Not sure where to go from here.

Current parameters:
alkalinity 7.6
phosphorus.125
nitrate 20
Calcium 1390
Ammonia 0

 

[DeniseAndy]

How old is your tank? What is your maintenance like? Have you added anything recently or changed something drastically? Did any have a brown jelly like substance on them? What fish and inverts do you have? Anything done around house? Toxin a possibility? How are other corals and fish and inverts?

Could be many things. I have found scolys to be pretty forgiving and bounce back if they are able. Water can be "dirty" and they are thrilled. Lights need not be high either. Tell us more on my questions and could answer for you.

 

[Cabo31]

This tank is 2 years old. Water change every week. Nothing changed in tank or house. All fish, corals eating well...even the ones we lost before we lost them.
Our other tank does have the brown jelly disease for sure, we lost a golden torch and several sps colonies. Still not sure if it will spread to others as we are not sure how to treat the tank. All I have read says dip the corals, quarantine, etc. but nothing on what to do with the tank. What about corals you cannot remove from rocks?

 

[DeniseAndy]

If you had disease in one tank you could have cross contaminated the bacterial infection. Man that sucks. I had lost all my montis in a matter of 4 months due to some infection that I could not treat because I could not take out of my 210g and could not treat the tank. Really sucks.

I have treated corals that were infected with brown jelly effectively, but I had to remove them from the tank to do it. Not all survived. I did a soak in antibiotics for 4 hours and then transferred them to a qt.
Can you get the rocks out to move to a qt and treat them? Just cannot use antibiotics on most other inverts.

 

[Hemmdog]

I have lost 4 scoly in the last week, one after another. They have been in the tank for a long time and I cannot figure out why. The mouth opens and then the flesh just peels off the skeleton within a day.
Help...any ideas? Could it be bacterial? Parasite? Not sure where to go from here.

Current parameters:
alkalinity 7.6
phosphorus.125
nitrate 20
Calcium 1390
Ammonia 0

What are your parameters? I sense some typos in this post. Brown jelly doesn’t effect sps so I don’t think it’s the same thing that’s getting all of your coral.

 

[DeniseAndy]

I read the torch and totally missed the sps reference. Could be another bacterial infection due to the abundance of the brown jelly and stress of the corals. Water quality could be an issue.