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Kenya Tree Doomed?

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a whiff of grapeshot
, 09-26-2011 at 02:28 PM (1746 Views)
I've had this coral for about 3 months and it was doing great. I fragged a piece off and it was doing good in my tank too. In the lastfew days I've noticed that it started to slump over and it's stopped opening up. This morning I found it like this. I tested my water and everything is fine; pH is within range, ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0, nitrate close to none, and phosphate is 0. The salinity is also within range though I've never really had problems with that. There is some discoloration happening at the base of the coral but it's been like that for around a month and it would come and go without causing any other problems. All my other corals are doing fine and the livestock is fine too. The tank is about 40 gallons with 45lbs of live rock and a 10 gallon sump/refugium. I don't think the coral is not too close to the light and it’s not being abused by too much flow. I don't know what’s going on with it? Is there anything to be alarmed about? Any help would be appreciated.
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  1. melev's Avatar
    It looks wilted to me. When's the last time you did a water change? And what do you dose - anything you put in the tank daily, weekly, monthly: list it.
  2. a whiff of grapeshot's Avatar
    The last time it opened up completely was about three days ago. I do water changes weekly (5 to 10 gallons per week) and I only add Coral-Vite for trace elements once a week and MicroVert to feed the corals. I don't dose anything, I have mostly softies and one LPS. The tank is only about 8 months but is stable. After posting earlier, I flopped the coral to the other side and I saw a brown, slimy film on some of the branches. I saw something similar to this online called 'brown jelly disease'. I wonder if this is what's wrong, but how do you get it or "cure" it? Maybe I should frag it before it really gets bad?
  3. melev's Avatar
    If you think you see brown jelly disease, the best thing you can do is siphon out any trace of it. You don't want that sitting on the coral nor sloughing off on other nearby corals. You can dip the affected (and cleaned off) coral in a product like ReVive for 10 minutes to aid in healing.

    I'm not surprised you see brown jelly disease. It was the next thing I was expecting if the coral didn't perk up.
  4. a whiff of grapeshot's Avatar
    Thanks Reef Guru!!