The annoy disease with hard corals (bjd)

[alexytman]

I've been having bad luck with jelly disease recently. A bunch of unlucky events. Like power outage, and a acrylic box falling onto my Duncan. How to you guys cure it, I only have coral rx. I can get iodine, but not any specific chems. What should I do with my LPS

 

[Gareth elliott]

I havent had any first hand experience but a few have posted luck with removing the afflicted parts and keeping just the healthy tissue.

Unrealistic if your duncan is only a head or 2 though.

I can say i have dipped all of my lps in reef dip which is iodine with no ill effects.

 

[Flippers4pups]

From a member here on Reef2reef:

I am not a friend of it, but the best way to safe the LPs who infected is antibiotic like Chloramphenicol and Erythromycin, i read often that Nitrofurazone will helped too. You must take out the infected Corals, put in a seperated tank or box and put 5mg Erythromycin in this seperated box, a mini stream and let it stay there for 6 hours. Just in few Minutes in the bad the Helicostoma begin to die. Repeat this the next 3 days and you will see it works.

 

[alexytman]

From a member here on Reef2reef:

I am not a friend of it, but the best way to safe the LPs who infected is antibiotic like Chloramphenicol and Erythromycin, i read often that Nitrofurazone will helped too. You must take out the infected Corals, put in a seperated tank or box and put 5mg Erythromycin in this seperated box, a mini stream and let it stay there for 6 hours. Just in few Minutes in the bad the Helicostoma begin to die. Repeat this the next 3 days and you will see it works.

Also I've noticed that most of the lps that die end up having broke jelly by the end of it. What could've caused this? My stats are on the range. Only think I can think of is detectable phosphate on the low range. Or is it because I used live rock which may have carried some pathogens?