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my mushrooms are getting this orange brown slime and they are dying !!! this morning it was just one mushroom and now tonight its 7 mushrooms they are green mushrooms. what could it be? has anyone ever seen this before? it actually looks like its moved butt its slime can it move and target corals? and now i see that some of my other mushrooms are turning white. all of my test are zero. nitrate nitrite ammonia and ph is 8.2.
 

grumpygils

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Originally Posted by tat2tillidie
my mushrooms are getting this orange brown slime and they are dying !!! this morning it was just one mushroom and now tonight its 7 mushrooms they are green mushrooms. what could it be? has anyone ever seen this before? it actually looks like its moved butt its slime can it move and target corals? and now i see that some of my other mushrooms are turning white. all of my test are zero. nitrate nitrite ammonia and ph is 8.2.
Blow them off (ph or turkey baster) and keep more flow than usual on them. I forget what it is called, but it could be the brown crap like jello that will quickly kill you LPSs like frogspawn, torch candy cane ect....if it finds them.
Good luck!
Mc
 

grumpygils

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Ok,
Did some quick hunting. It could be brown jelly disease. Need pics to make sure. One suggested cure is a lugols dip. Personally, I do not do the freshwater lugols dip initially. I do 40 drops to a gallon of tank water for 15 minutes while gently shaking the coral every now and then. After a day or two if the problem persists, I do the same with fresh RO water. If you have no Lugols Iodine, get some, but in the mean time increase the flow big time to that area. It can spread, but if caught early, other corals will not be affected. Any signs on other corals, do a dip.
Good Luck
Mc
 
i just used a hose and sucked it out every piece i seen. is that good? the other day i was cleaning my p skimmer and i put my finger in the hole and it felt like i popped a bubble could that have been it and because of that it went into the tank? it felt jellyish. what is it a disease or what and i have iodine but not sure if its that kind. its a red bottle and its kent? will it go away on its own or do i have to get rid of it is there a fish or sumtin that eats it? lol im going crazy here.
 

grumpygils

Active Member
Originally Posted by tat2tillidie
i just used a hose and sucked it out every piece i seen. is that good? the other day i was cleaning my p skimmer and i put my finger in the hole and it felt like i popped a bubble could that have been it and because of that it went into the tank? it felt jellyish. what is it a disease or what and i have iodine but not sure if its that kind. its a red bottle and its kent? will it go away on its own or do i have to get rid of it is there a fish or sumtin that eats it? lol im going crazy here.
They call it jelly fish disease, so it is a disease. I am not familiar with the concentration of the kent Iodine but it should have dipping instructions on the bottles. I doubt it is as concentrated as Lugols? ARe things better since you sucked it out? I would still keep up the flow.
Mc
 
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