All About The Brown Jelly Disease

[@salemclemens6148]

I have been researching it for the last two years with my university. I cant speak much about my findings but in short any pathogenic event will be caused by an abioitic stress event that then shifts the corals microbial community to a pathogenic state. This can be as much as a small swing or warefare. Because you mentioned your torches were having warfare that is likely the root cause here. The two things i can offer going forward are 1. Increase your microbial diversity - real live rock - eliminating excess filtration such as UV sterilization - ecobalance - hydrospace probio 2. Chase stability - pH - po4 Are some of the largest factors that can cause pathogenisis

[@BrockLeonard]

Thank you so much for your research and sharing this! This is awesome. Where are you attending for school?

[@rajgill7576]

I looked up that hydrospace probio stuff, pricey stuff. I'm pretty new to the hobby, is it something I need? I have a purple coralline algae booster bottle and reef roids fine powdered coral food so far. And I started my tank with frintzyme turbo start.

[@duberollinup3452]

I just had a battle with brown jelly disease its the only thing that has set me back in this hobby, it was sad cause it was like nothing caused it. Lost about 7 pieces.

[@BrockLeonard]

It is a painful thing to go through

[@bobbiesueleonard61]

Happy New Year. Can’t wait to see all the new videos. 🎉

[@BrockLeonard]

Thanks for checking us out!!

[@user-er5uv9hz6z]

Going thru it now, so frustrating. Lost torch , Duncan, and hammer to it already 😢

[@BrockLeonard]

Gahhhh lee😭

[@Don_Garcia]

Hey bro make a video about horse shoe crab care please

[@sueaustin9093]

Very Informative!! Great being able to see what the Problem Looks Like !! 👍🏻

[@BrockLeonard]

Thanks for watching!!

[@tonycloseukreef3799]

This video has been a great help cheers Brock 👍

[@BrockLeonard]

Thank you Tony!!✌🏼

[@taylorhughes1106]

I am so sorry you lost your bubble coral ❤

[@TheMollgion]

Supposedly sponges help keep the microbiome more their usual proportions in population, even during atypical water condition changes. From what I’ve read, most of the problem isn’t a particular problematic pathogenic organism- it’s often an eschew population proportions of pre-existing bacteria; sponges maintain this populations proportions as part of their DDAM (Dom, disease, algae, microorganism) cycle. Kinda useless info as sponges aren’t always easily kept, but plumbing in a sponge near the refuge um with some PVC, avoiding the light and making sure it can never lose its water level during a failure, could possibly see results. Some people keep samples of their healthy, happy water changes to try and reintroduce previously known healthy bacteria populations.

[@BrockLeonard]

This was a great read! Thank you so much for sharing! ❤️

[@rajgill7576]

My goniopora frag in my new tank has just been melting from this stuff. Ive been blasting with a pipette removing what I can. Big sad!! Im hoping my other frags will be okay so far so good. Edit: what do you dip with? I tried a hydrogennperoxide for the goni and it looked good for a day snd dropped some more polyps today ):

[@mikemccoy7931]

Thanks for the video, sorry this happened. How exactly did you go about siphoning the jelly out? Seems difficult

[@BrockLeonard]

I’ll try to explain this the best way I can over text haha. So you have your siphon and your tube. I remove the siphon so that the tube has a strong suction. Cover the tube with my thumb and then about half my thumb covers the tube and it sucks that brown jelly right off. I have hair algae video where I show that up close. Maybe that’ll help better than my explanation does 😂

[@mikemccoy7931]

Okay, that makes sense! I can see where that is probably the best way to deal with it@@BrockLeonard

[@michelhaineault6654]

I wonder if it's not also cause by excessive flow...

[@numberkidtheprimenumberfan1979]

RIP BUBBLE CORAL

[@BrockLeonard]

8 years old!

[@numberkidtheprimenumberfan1979]

@@BrockLeonard Someday you might do other species of Angelfish and Tangs. I miss Tangs and Angelfish though.

[@jerry3sanchez]

🎉

[@BrockLeonard]

Thanks for coming by Jerry!