dieing duncan

[daniella3d]

YOu need to dip it right away with 1/3 peroxyde 3% and 2/3 tank water for a minute or so.

Do it right away because this look like brown jelly and it's going to eat your duncan alive. After the peroxyde dip, return the duncan in the tank and it will heal. They are extremely tough coral and I once had that same brown stuff and used peroxide. The coral regained full healfh and it's now absolutely gorgious.

Also you need to feed a duncan to keep it at its best. They are photosynthetic but feeding them surely help them become strong and healthy.

[Aquaria]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

YOu need to dip it right away with 1/3 peroxyde 3% and 2/3 tank water for a minute or so.

Do it right away because this look like brown jelly and it's going to eat your duncan alive. After the peroxyde dip, return the duncan in the tank and it will heal. They are extremely tough coral and I once had that same brown stuff and used peroxide. The coral regained full healfh and it's now absolutely gorgious.

Also you need to feed a duncan to keep it at its best. They are photosynthetic but feeding them surely help them become strong and healthy.

Iv been having an issue getting off the.rocks its cemented in can i suck it off first since the only spot to grab it is where the stuff is? Also it won't take food like it used to nothing sticks to it anymore just floats away

[daniella3d]

cut if off the rock and dip it. If the rock is not large, then take the rock out and dip it too if it does not have other coral on it of course. Shut down your pump so the brown jelly won't spread, but you must remove that fast because it spread fast and will infect the whole duncan.

They will recover if at least one head is healthy.

I once cut off a colony in half and since there was half of a head that was cutt off I tried to scrape it completely off. I remove everything except one tiny tentacle, and that was enough to regrow the whole head. They are really tough but the brown jelly is one thing that will kill it if not cleaned right away.

Originally Posted by Aquaria

Iv been having an issue getting off the.rocks its cemented in can i suck it off first since the only spot to grab it is where the stuff is? Also it won't take food like it used to nothing sticks to it anymore just floats away

[Enigma]

Brown jelly very, very, bad!

My advice (having lost corals to this already . . . One can infect others) is to get it out of your tank ASAP. I didn't act fast enough. I would set up a hospital tank for it, and place it in that after doing the dip. Make sure to siphon up any brown jelly that you see: substrate, rock, water column, etc. Also, closely inspect any other corals close to it for brown jelly: especially those that are "downstream" from it.

Had I acted quickly, I wouldn't have lost everything I did. I didn't know what I was looking at, and I kept waiting for improvement. I will never allow anything with brown jelly disease to remain in my display tank ever again. Maybe I'm overreacting, but the losses were very hard for me to deal with.