Brown Jelly on a ric, suggestions? (1 Viewer)

[RSnodgrass]

One of my rics was recently moved and I think my pectina got to it. As a result (after two days) it's got brown jelly disease! (soft tissue rtn)

Just wondering what if anything can be done. I did a lugols dip and put in an isolated container. I'm very hesitant to place an infected coral back in the tank.

 

[AmyZ]

DO NOT PLACE it back into the tank!!!

 

[AmyZ]

Nick had that as well with his 120
He thought same thing that some coral or fish was beating it up or the tank setup was wrong and moved it to his 45 cube at the time
It wiped a lot of coal out of both tanks

 

[VikingsCrazy]

Don't do it! Not worth it. There is another ricordea where that one came from.

 

[Nickz]

I thought brown jelly only took out LPS, when I had it, every lps in both tanks went within 2 weeks, the softies and sps were fine. Nothing I tried worked it was just a lot of lps dieing quickly from the brown goo

 

[dougers31]

You could maybe try putting it in a small nano or goldfish bowl with plenty of flow as long as it's attached to a rock. Before putting it in I would do a good dip in iodine and or melafix and rinse off all the decayed material. Using fresh mixed salt water for the container would be my recommendation with once or twice a day 90% to 100% water changes. It's probably a goner either way though but you never know.

 

[RSnodgrass]

You could maybe try putting it in a small nano or goldfish bowl with plenty of flow as long as it's attached to a rock. Before putting it in I would do a good dip in iodine and or melafix and rinse off all the decayed material. Using fresh mixed salt water for the container would be my recommendation with once or twice a day 90% to 100% water changes. It's probably a goner either way though but you never know.

Well I do have my frag bucket which would work really well for this... will try that if still alive tomorrow.

Currently in a sealed container and yes the goo from what I read does impact rics though this is the first I recall seeing it.

 

[RSnodgrass]

Don't do it! Not worth it. There is another ricordea where that one came from.

Yes... all of the ones I own.

 

[dougers31]

if you're putting it in just a standard container with no oxygen or filtration it might be gone by morning... The goo will contaminate the water and probably raise ammonia quickly. You could also try putting it in a bucket with a UV sterilizer...

 

[RSnodgrass]

if you're putting it in just a standard container with no oxygen or filtration it might be gone by morning... The goo will contaminate the water and probably raise ammonia quickly. You could also try putting it in a bucket with a UV sterilizer...

I'll consider it dead... that seems like an obvious expectation of what's to come but running out of the office I was like... F-it, in you go.

For good measure I made sure to shake it really well in the tank yesterday and then held in front of my pump return to try and blow it off.

 

[Nickz]

For good measure I made sure to shake it really well in the tank yesterday and then held in front of my pump return to try and blow it off.

Lol

 

[RSnodgrass]

if you're putting it in just a standard container with no oxygen or filtration it might be gone by morning... The goo will contaminate the water and probably raise ammonia quickly. You could also try putting it in a bucket with a UV sterilizer...

You were mostly right, smelled like death today BUT all the jelly did fall off.

I did another dip and placed in my frag bucket (to be cleaned later). Will see what happens I guess... could always put my spare light on it as well.

 

[RSnodgrass]

Dipped twice in lugols and added back to the display again today. There are no signs of crud and frag smelled fine.

Regardless of it living I would not put a freshly treated frag like that back in the system after dipping only because it wasn't until later that all the jelly sluffed off.

 

[Mordim]

Fingers crossed for you

 

[RSnodgrass]

Day three after getting back in the tank... no reason not to expect a full recovery.

It's missing some sizable chunks of flesh but it's still inflating like normal.

I'd consider dipping any ric/Yuma this way before putting in a tank going forward. 3 drops of lugols in a standard specimen cup for 10 min.

 

[RSnodgrass]

Update since November...

It shrank to the size of tiny and stayed small for quite awhile. Last month I noticed it starting to get a bit bigger and today it's about the size it was when it first got BJD.

I'll call this a successful rescue in spite of myself.

 

[RSnodgrass]

*the color looks terrible in the photo but it's nice in person.