brown jelly on torch?? pics..

Maverick00 · #1 03-05-2011, 01:53 AM

Im not too familiar with "brown jelly" being so new to saltwater (just over a year) and have been able thus far to avoid it.

I bought this torch from a LFS a few days ago. It was a "two headed coral" but i was just charged for a single head because it was suspected one of the two heads might recede back into its skeleton. The first and second day the coral seemed alright, wasnt opening too much but i assumed it was getting use to its new water parameters. On the third day i noticed the torch wasnt inflating at all, and some of the tentacles showed some signs of decay. Today it appears to have some kind of jelly on it and really looks like somethings wrong which lead to post a thread. I did a 10 gal wc this morning.

Nitrite Nitrate Ammonia Phosphate not detectable
Cal 420
Mag 1155
Alk 10.4
PH 8
80*F

sorry the pics are extremely blue. Ill try to spin the coral around and get some pics of the otherside asap. Thanks for any advice.

Wayne · #2 03-05-2011, 02:19 AM

Looks dead to me... Sorry

ALang · #3 03-05-2011, 02:21 AM

Yeah, get it out immediately. Run carbon if you are not already, hopefully everything else is ok.

Maverick00 · #4 03-05-2011, 02:34 AM

god dammit.... i figured id take a couple more shots to confirm. when i bought the coral there were already multiple "dead heads" on the rock itself. maybe that was a sign.. Is there anything i can do to try and save this thing? Im reading about it now, Iodine or FW dips if Iodine isnt accessible atm? thanks guys.

naesco · #5 03-05-2011, 03:02 AM

Try placing it with more flow ensuring that the living part is closest to the flow direction.
It appears to me on the sand. Try moving it to the bottom 25%.
Try target feeding it a little bit of fresh shrimp or if you don't have it, try mysis with your flow shut off while feeding.

The Grizz · #6 03-05-2011, 03:07 AM

You need to dip that thing in something to remove the brown jelly. If you put it in a higher flow area you run the risk of speeding it around. Remove some of the dead heads try to save the one you have but I think it is to far gone already. There was another thread recently about brown jelly on ric's, see what they did to treat.