Help coral dieing overnight

Hey all,

This morning the death seems to be much slower. One or two more heads are showing some die off. If any other heads show die off when I get home I will be fraggin it in half unfortunately.

 

Good luck Ryan. So sorry to hear about your issue.....how does coral get this jelly disease?

 

Completely no idea.

All my params etc seem really good.

 

Actually it is good to have a very small amount of ammonia, frag the good side and throw away the bad side.

 

I have never fragged something before? How do you do this? Can i just use a saw/blade to cut the coral in half trying to leave as much of the base skeleton intact?

 

dip them in a mixture of iodine and hydrogen peroxide with your tank water or ro water - just be sure to have same ph levels. this worked for me with a bubble coral with brown jelly

 

To frag a branching colony like that you need to just cut the skeleton between heads. It is best to make the cut in a spot that is all dead skeleton with no living tissue as thing helps reduce the risk of disease. That is why it is saw much harder to frag colonies of wall frogspawn or hammer since you have no choice but to cut the tissue.

As for ammonia, I agree with fat******* that you shouldnt have any. However I am assuming you are using the API kit which makes it almost impossible to tell between 0 and .25. IME if you have ammonia, your tankw ill let you know way before a test kit!

 

To treat brown jelly ie. necrotic tissue, you can use airline tubing to siphon off the dead/necrotic tissue and giving the coral a bath with an Iodine solution like TM Pro Coral Cure or similar product is likely the best way to treat the problem as the iodine will act as an antiseptic and hopefully kill prevent the spread of the tissue necrosis.

 

I think I was successful in my first fragging attempt . I removed all of the dead heads and put it back in the tank and coral seems to be going great. No sign of death/brown jelly on any of the remaining heads.

 

Great news Ryan! Congrats on your first fragging!