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Old 09-27-2010, 04:38 PM
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I agree on the brown jelly and this is very hard to cure.

The only way to cure this is to cut off the affected part as soon as possible. Make sure you cut every sick out, like at least 1/4" into healthy flesh.

I am not sure those around are aiptasia. They look like palythoas polyps to me but it's hard to juge on the photo.

In any case, if you have access to a microscope at 200x or 400x you should be able to see thousands of protozoare eating the coral flesh and absorbing zooxanthellae from it.

Best way to id this plague.

As for the ick...quarantine.


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Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo View Post
It kind of looks like the far end of the coral has 'brown jelly infection' to me. If that is the case the whole thing will be gone in a pile of slime within a few days if you dont remove the infected area. Either syphon it out or cut off the covered part.
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