Again....
Originally Posted by irie ivan pray some more for the rest of your LPS corals....
Things like keeping parameters rock solid, within accepted range, is your only hope. Any drastic actions will most likely stress your inhabitants resulting in a spread to your other corals.
The data is still very scarce, what we do know is that we are dealing with a ciliate (
Philaster digitformis) which is only found in abundance in deseased specimens and interestingly absent in healthy corals......
Although.... vibrio and pseudovibrio species cannot be ruled out.
Whether we are dealing with opportunistic bacterial species like vibrio being the primary invader / attacker, weakening the stat of the host, resulting in a secondary invasion / proliferation of ciliates (shown to ingest tissue), causing an explosive growth which we witness as jelly.... Or, whether we are dealing with the coral tissue ingesting ciliates being the primary attacker / culprit is really difficult to prove.
However, what is paramount is that although similarities in symptoms do exist between this disease and other coral diseases, is that Brown Jelly is not prevalent in nature..... Which again, like in the case of STN, RTN, etc. the most likely actual cause is environmental conditions found in our aquariums....
Simply put, stressors such as lighting, flow and arameter dynamics which the coral is not accustomed to.
Just becaue a coral looks healthy for a year in your tank, does not meen it is healthy and happy..... How long do we humans walk around carrying the Human immune Deficience virus before we start showing symptoms..... Usually when its too late I think....
