Yes but my question was how do you know?
I have only my professional experience in marine aquarism 20 years.
I just got a torch in the mail. One week later, it is getting brown jelly disease. My Kh is 11. Phosphate is good. Somehow I do not think KH is the driver. Stress, maybe. Years ago we had a very large, long tentacle torch. I dipped it in the iodine they tell you too. It died. I would try antibiotic before iodine.
Perhaps Torch was simply injured during transportation and soft tissue necrosis began. If damage is noticeable, then you need to immediately bathe in antibiotics, etc., three times with an interval of 48 hours approximately.
I think what you are hinting at is stressors opening up the door for the bacterial infection. It is not a debate that bjd is a bacterial infection. But any stressor, shipping, sharp parameter changes, mechanical injury can open this door.
Reply Calcium is 450, magnesium is 1260, alk was 11 last night. Salt is right on. I have lots of other Torches that are fine. This one was not sent in a cup, just lose in the bag. Tried a new seller and lose in the bag did not work.
I must have screwed up the alk test. My alk is testing 9, calcium 460, and mag 1260.
Most likely, Torch was wounded in a bag and now there is tissue necrosis on it and therefore there is brown jelly.
Increased ozygen exchange with an airstone micro bubbles. I had it soaking in amoxicillin. I did not see your post for no longer than two hours. I just removed it, rinsed it off and placed it in a low light area of the tank. In the last few days skeleton has been showing on the sides. The animal is still in the center of all that. We have skeleton showing. From what I am reading, usually they do not survive. Time will tell. At least I gave it a fighting chance. Lucky I had antibiotics on hand. You no longer can get Cipro without going to a vet. They want to see the animal to prove you got a sick one, so that means taking the torch out in a bag, showing it and hoping the vet gives you a prescription.
I do not see bail out or tentacles falling off. Here is hoping because it was not cheap. I liked its thick tentacles. It looked lovely for the first few days.
There are always chances.
Looks better this morning. Tentacles are out. I am glad I gave it a chance. I am not going to try to feed it. I feed my entire tank clam feeds from Reef Nutrition, so I think that will be enough. Crossing the fingers. Hope it works out. Hard to find the really long tentacle ones. Most are the short Australian Torches. Thanks for your help.
I have a question. They are banning the sale of fish med antibiotics online, in farm stores. To get Cipro the vet wanted 75 dollar office fee, see the animal which in this case is a Torch Coral, and the cost of the med which probably my guess would be around 50.00. Some vets will even tell you I do not work on aquatic life. Who is going to go through all this to save a fish, coral, etc? Bad day for the animals who might have been saved.
Wellcome!
They've done that because antibiotic resistance is a terrifying thing. Whether this is an effective measure, I don't know, but it comes from an effort to prevent a lot of human deaths. People misuse prescription antibiotics badly enough when they're given the pills by a doctor and told how to use them, after all, let alone if they buy it online. Bad for the animals, yes, but I'd rather some corals die and some fish have to be euthanized than even one person get an untreatable bacterial infection and die horribly.
Have you noticed drastic or irreversible changes in the populations of nitrifying bacteria (AOB – ammonia oxidizers, and NOB – nitrite oxidizers) after using these common antibiotics?
