Help Coral dying

[Riptide]

Your in Leduc...ten minutes from me I have some Joe juice that will remedy the aptaisa in the imediate area....and then take the others advice on a permanant solution (I'm not familar with natural remedies as I just use the juice). We will just have to be careful not to get any on the coral as it can/will burn it.

I have know clue about how to remove the infected area besides taking a saw or grinder to it (anyone else have any thoughts) as I'm assuming this is a form of SPS.

Any how feel free to call and we can at least provide some temporary relief 780 716 4045 Joe

[Riptide]

pardon me....LPS

Christie do you have photographic memory? You look at a pic and remember the name???

[lionfaceman]

Well I have taken all fish out and got joes juice and aptasia x. Seems to be workin but that was just one treatment. Also got 6 peppermint shrimp hopefully that works to. Wow it has been a bad month for my tank. Just got over a battle of ick. Lost all my fish except 2 of them. Well hopefully thing get better soon. Thanks to everyone and there input I will post pics tonight of the treated area.

[daniella3d]

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.

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

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.