Terrible brown jelly outbreak

ReefDreamz · Jan 26, 2024

My tank is going through a really rough bacterial infection. It started with an octospawn brown jellying seemingly overnight 4 weeks ago. Since then I've lost a splatter hammer, a heliofungia, another frogspawn, my HG torch, my malasian HG torch, and most recently my magic carpet mushrooms. Many $1000's in coral losses. I've also lost single heads of other torch colonies which I had to frag off. Just noticed another dead head on a large torch colony this morning. I've been pulling affected corals and doing KFC dips as best I can. I already did the 0.125 mg/L cipro in tank treatment (3 doses over 6 days) twice. I'm already running and have been running UV and ozone. My SPS are unaffected, my manual testing and ICP tests are spot on so I don't think it's parameter related, definetly bacterial. I'm about to start the experimental KFC in tank treatment but very nervous doing this as it's very high doses of 3 antibiotics and I don't want to hurt my SPS or fish. I don't want to make a bad situation worse. Please give me some success stories of guys who've done the KFC in tank treatment.

Macbalacano · Jan 27, 2024

I am so sorry for all the trouble, that sounds absolutely heartbreaking, especially seeing how gorgeous and packed your tank is! I stumbled upon this thread a few weeks ago, hope it helps!

Experimenting with in-tank antibiotic treatments for Brown Jelly Disease

Brown Jelly Disease (BJD) is an issue many reefers have run into. Like most coral diseases, the pathogen causing BJD has not been conclusively determined. Here I will share some observations and test results supporting the idea that its caused by a bacterial pathogen, and so may be treatable...

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