Sun Coral turning white

[LiveRock]

Help! My sun coral is turning white.

It started with 1 or 2 poly having some brown mucus. bubbles appear together with these brown mucus and then, they disappear and move on to the next polys, leaving white cal. skeleton.

Is there a way to help the Sun coral? or is it destined to die like that!!!!

I tried to wash off the brown mucus but it came back very fast within 1 day.

Is it a disease or a virus, baterial or some kind of parasite? Help!

[ong]

1. Do you feed your Suncoral every 2 days with Brine Shrimp or chopped small 'sea food' on each poly? If not, usually it would not last more than a mth.

2. Where you place the suncorals, if direct under the light may caused it die

3. How the water flow. Suncorals require good water flow and ofcos' gd. water parmeter.

Rgds

[Morgan]

How long have you kept the sun coral?

Did you feed it?

What you are experiencing is a disease "brown jelly" and sorry to say this but chances of survival is very slim.

[LiveRock]

Oh no! Brown Jelly! Will it spread to my mushrooms?

Yes, I did fed my corals with mysis shrimps once a while...

The sun is not under any direct light and has good flow.

[Morgan]

LiveRock

Brown jelly wiil not spread to mushrooms. It only affects hard corals.

[Morgan]

I do not think that sun coral cannot be place under strong lighting.

I have mine expose to direct sunlight for 4 hr each day. The important thing is to feed them regularly.

[LiveRock]

Is there a medication for brown jelly?

I really like the Sun Coral as it is the only one that does not need lights like metal halides, etc. AND when it opens, it is really nice.

If my Sun Coral really dies (seems like beyond hope oredy), how long must I wait before the water are cleared of these nuisance brown jelly baterial?

(I'm thinking of getting another small one.)

[Morgan]

Medication............Nope, not that I know of.

How long to wait before replacement? actually no idea, cannot help.

Last week my brain got brown jelly and it kill off some of my poci colony.

Lucky it did not spread any further. touch wood

It is best to remove the infected colony from the tank, which I did not do out of stupidity.

[B|uEc@rpEt]

LR...

This may sound silly...but washing ya sun coral quickly under running fresh water may help....i did that b4...(but! it could be a coincidence that it worked for me)....

Anyway...if I am not mistaken...AquaMart sells a coral dip solution....I cun remember wat brand either....seen it b4...but decided not to purchase it in the end...dun koe why also

[Tanzy]

If possible, frag the coral above the brown jelly line. There might be a chance the healthy part may live.

[LiveRock]

Tried running fw over it but still it came back.

In fact, now worse. 3/4 of it is infected. Looks like no turning back.

sigh...............

[B|uEc@rpEt]

Gee...sorrie to hear that LR....

Hope u dun get 2 sad over ya sun coral....

[hongqixian]

Tried running fw over it but still it came back.

In fact, now worse. 3/4 of it is infected. Looks like no turning back.

sigh...............

Ahh! Sorry, I didn't see this thread. Brown jelly is caused by a bacterial infection, possibly vibrio spp. bacteria. The seachem iodine solution dip would have helped or just an iodine solution dip with Kent Marine's Lugol solution or similar.

[LiveRock]

It is gone. Had totally turned white with skeleton...

anyway, thanks for all the help and concern shown in this forum!

you guys are great!

[hongqixian]

If we didn't reply then this forum would be absolutely useless