please help

[bschaible]

i just noticed that on one of the branches of my torch coral, there is a brown film growing over it that wont allow the tentacles to come out...what is this?

 

[teen]

sounds like brown jelly disease. do a search on it.
i just searched and this is what i came up with
- can spread to other corals.
- will most likely spread over all the corals tissue and kill it.
-usually caused by poor water quality, shipping stress, or sudden waterchanges.

 

[aztec reef]

how much air flow do you have? gph? how long has it been in tank? did you do something that would stressed it out lately?

 

[bschaible]

gph is about 750, ive had it for a couple months and this is the first sign of any stress, and no i havent done anything to the tank recently to have stressed it out...

 

[fishkid2]

Originally Posted by teen
sounds like brown jelly disease. do a search on it.
i just searched and this is what i came up with
- can spread to other corals.
- will most likely spread over all the corals tissue and kill it.
-usually caused by poor water quality, shipping stress, or sudden waterchanges.
it can only spead to lps corals too

 

[aztec reef]

Originally Posted by BSchaible
gph is about 750, ive had it for a couple months and this is the first sign of any stress, and no i havent done anything to the tank recently to have stressed it out...
how big is your tank? it can suffocate very easy if it doesn't have good enuf flow.

 

[aztec reef]

you can do this now for EMERGENCY, aim a power at it to get some of that slime off, or syphon it if you can. also it will be a good idea to do a waterchange now causeyou might have high nitrates or phosphates..

 

[bschaible]

tank is 30 gallons...doing water change today