Shrooms are dying

[rchan11]

Some of my shrooms are dying and growing in its place are these brown fungus(?). Are they killing my shrooms?

 

[rchan11]

I checked my parameters yesterday and everything is fine. Other shrooms and corals are doing great.

 

[rchan11]

They don't live forever I suppose.

 

[melev]

Do siphon out that sludge with airline tubing.

 

[Guest]

I've had similar problems with this particular Tongan species. I don't know what it is but it only affects Tongans in my tank. I have noticed the ones in the shade survived.
Is yours directly under the MH?

 

[rchan11]

They're all dead.

 

[melev]

That sludge might be brown jelly disease.

 

[rchan11]

@Marc wrote:

Will it spread to my other corals? How do you treat it?

 

[rchan11]

@AaronGA wrote:

They were under PC.

 

[Animal Mother]

How do you treat brown jelly disease?

 

[melev]

I don't know. The first time I heard about it was from Eric Borneman, when he was diagnosing one of my corals. It ended up not being that, so I didn't have to pursue it.

I'd still siphon out any of that stuff from your tank, if it is still there.

 

[rchan11]

I believe I do have brown jelly disease. It spread to my brain coral and part of it turned white. I removed it and got all the jelly off. Have to see if the coral will recover.

 

[Animal Mother]

I had some brown goo show up on my Torch corals base and it shrivelled up and died last week in a matter of 2 days....

I thought maybe I damaged it with my scraper but now I'm wondering if there wasn't something else wrong with it.

 

[rchan11]

I cleaned up my brain coral yesterday and the brow stuff came back this morning. :evil:

 

[rchan11]

Here's the pic of the brain after I've cleaned it the 2nd time. The brown jelly was all over the white part.