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09/04/2007, 05:48 PM
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Folks I need some help.
My tank has got something in it I am not sure what. I have lost a few colonies to brown jelly recently. I am really frustrated with this stuff and want to get it out of my tank. I am losing one ever couple weeks. Sometimes breaking it down may save a piece of it. But also noticed today that I have something going on with all my caps. I will get pictures of this later when I am not as busy. I will also post numbers shortly but they are well within specs.
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09/06/2007, 09:30 PM
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Anybody that knows anything about brown jelly? Is it resident in the tank for ever is there something I can do? Today it has decided to attack a colony of Digi. I am getting frustrated the dips don't seem to help, and unless I can get far away from the jelly and frag it continues onto the new frags.
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09/06/2007, 09:35 PM
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sillicate?? last water change? age of your lamps??
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09/06/2007, 09:49 PM
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Bulbs were replaced in the last month, Don't have a silicate test kit. As for regular water changes I will say that I lack here. I am going to pull a 40% water change over the weekend, just too busy during the week, to accomplish this. Do you think the water changes would remove it from the water column?
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09/06/2007, 10:09 PM
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getting an air line and syphoning off as much of the jelly you can wouldnt hurt, but im not sure it would save the corals, from what ive seen, brown jelly is just a mixture of alot of nasties that attack a sick or weakend coral. i would work on getting your tank back up to par with waterchanges and such.
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09/06/2007, 11:16 PM
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Thats the deal the corals that are getting attacked now have full polyp extension, bright colors, and show no signs of problems even just in front of the moving jelly line the polyps look great one hour and the next it has taken them over. As for syphoning I tried that, I have also pulled the entire frag scrubbed it in lugols and let it soak for 15 minutes put it back in the tank and within a few hours its taken it back over again. I am going to pull a good cleaning and completely clean my sand bed to see if that will help, along with the water change.
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