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plate coral struggle

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a whiff of grapeshot
, 11-11-2011 at 11:32 PM (4082 Views)
My corals are not looking good... I tested the water and everything is ok except the nitrates are a little high, although I don't feel like this is the reason why. I've had them high before but it didn't affect anything. Recently I had an anenome die but I took it out right away, this was not even a week ago. I don't over feed and I just did a 20% water change. The tank is a 40 gallon with 10 gallon fuge. My soft corals were the first to show signs that something was wrong and now my long tentacle plate coral is showing it's skeleton. Any advice?
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Updated 11-12-2011 at 05:39 PM by a whiff of grapeshot

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  1. Midnight's Avatar
    post all your stats so we can see that they are all fine. how old are your bulbs? have you tried a water change? could be anything but for us to help we need more.
  2. a whiff of grapeshot's Avatar
    no phosphates, nitrites, or ammonia, ph is between 8 and 8.2. nitrate is ~ 10 ppm according to the test kit. t5 bulbs are about 8 months old but i dont think its a lighting issue. as for water change, i just did a 10 gallon water change a few days ago. this morning i looked at it again and its bubbling up with some clear stuff. its wierd tough, that my other lps corals are not affected. any advice would be appreciated.
  3. Midnight's Avatar
    pictures? the coral is bubbling up clear stuff?
  4. a whiff of grapeshot's Avatar
    ive added a picture
  5. Myhahockeykid's Avatar
    brown jelly disease...sorry to say man, but you're better off tossing it before the infection spreads to your other LPS coral. Put it in a ziploc while underwater so the goo doesnt go anywhere except out of the tank. Brown Jelly is highly contagious and can wipe out a beautiful LPS display in a short time
  6. cyano's Avatar
    I agree looks like brown jelly to me as well, if you have a quarantine tank you could do some research real quick on fragging a piece of it then tossing the rest and putting in quarantine, I mean there really is nothing to lose there since the brown jelly will kill it anyway so though it is more stress you may be able to save and regrow a frag sorry
  7. a whiff of grapeshot's Avatar
    its gotten worse since i post the picture... i dont want to lose it....
  8. cyano's Avatar
    read up on brown jelly disease then do what you feel is best for your tank, there are some that say to make some freshwater that matched the temp and ph of your tank, add iodine to the freshwater, take a turkey baster and suck all the brown jelly off of it, then pull out the coral and dip it in the freshwater then quarantine it, but if you pull it out and it has that nasty dead coral smell you probably shouldn't waste your time even trying to dip it, but research quickly, time is of the essence and your whole tank is at risk here (personally if i didn't have a quarantine tank I would have tossed it already to try to stop the spread of the infection to the rest of the tank and counted my losses) good luck
  9. a whiff of grapeshot's Avatar
    i just took it out of the tank and it fell apart, i tried to gently scrub the jelly off with a soft toothbrush but it just came apart. theres a little bit of green between the skeleton but it dont know... i think its gone.