Main Menu
| |
Get on the Map!
| |
Forum Menu
| | 
02-03-2005, 11:02 PM
|
#1 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 853
Karma: 122
 
|  Infected Coral please help identify illness
Hello....help
I have this sun coral that has this slimey gooey slippery type of algae growing on it. It started out as a small globe looking thing about the size of a pea. It actually started inside of one of the long dead frogspawn branches that came with my single head frogspawn. All I could see is a little translucent red spot. It got a little bigger and then I noticed it on this coral in the pic. This stuff has grown over about a month. It has spread to 2 zoonathid rocks but I removed it from there. I have seen it clear on the other end of my 30 gallon on a coral. This is the only one that looks threatened but it still spreading. Tonight I took it out of the tank and tryed to manually remove it and it is very slippery and slimey. I cannot remove it with my fingets as it just kindof melts into a stickey oose in my fingers. I did a iodine dip tonight and moved ir to a powerhead for now.
Someone please tell me what it is.
Desparate!
Jay 
_________
60 Gal Acrylic, 30 Gal Acrylic, 55 Gal Glass.
Remora skimmers, 440 Watts VHO URI's. Mag canister for carbon. 90 Pounds liverock, 100 pounds live sand DSB, Flame Angel, Coral Beauty, Clown Percula, Royal Gramma, Domino Damsel. Pulsing Xenia, Devils Hand Leather, Frogspawns, Torches, Hammers, Fox Corals, Gorgonias, Various Zoanuthus, Favietes, Toxic Green Star Polyps. Candy Cane corals, Purple Indica. | 
|  | | Reef Links |  | |
02-03-2005, 11:04 PM
|
#2 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 853
Karma: 122
| Re: Infected Coral please help identify illness
Bump.....I guess Im impatient. JohnO....BL...Matt..anyone
Jat  | |
| | |
02-03-2005, 11:12 PM
|
#3 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 853
Karma: 122
| Re: Infected Coral please help identify illness
Ok, I found one of the little bubble looking things and pulled it out of the tank. It is translucent and the color of red wine. It is hollow and I had to squeeze it to make it pop. Out came this thick clear slime the consistency of well for lack of better words, snot. I know sorry to gross you out..hehe. WTF is it?
Jay | |
| | |
02-04-2005, 04:17 AM
|
#4 (permalink)
| | Kole Tang
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: SF/Monterey Bay Area, CA
Posts: 1,750
Karma: 104
| Re: Infected Coral please help identify illness
Bubble algae aka Valonia aka sailors eye. Try not to pop them in your tank as they contain spores. They can grow into a nuisance fairly quickly.
_________
Gresham
__________________________________...
Feeding the reef... one polyp at a time... | |
| | |
02-04-2005, 06:16 AM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 853
Karma: 122
| Re: Infected Coral please help identify illness
How do I get rid of it? I hate to throw out a living coral.
Jay | |
| | |
02-04-2005, 06:42 AM
|
#6 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 853
Karma: 122
| Re: Infected Coral please help identify illness
Thanks...I have found a link for the treatment. Thanks Gresham 
Jay | |
| | |
02-04-2005, 07:40 AM
|
#7 (permalink)
| | Vlamingii Tang
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 1,888
Karma: 425
 | Re: Infected Coral please help identify illness
Gresham is there also a red bubble algae? .... John | |
| | |
02-04-2005, 08:26 AM
|
#9 (permalink)
| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
Posts: 2,947
| Re: Infected Coral please help identify illness
Yes, expand here please...
I see the valonia in the picture, but what is the red stuff?
I need that link also, Jay....I have a bit of the bubbly in my tank as well! _________  I Love My Sig By John Hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date Started 9/04 58 gallon Oceanic Tank, 20 gal DIY sump/fuge w/ Kent Marine Auto top-off, Air Water Ice RO/DI, 10,000 K 175 W MH, 2 VHO 03's 96W each, AquaC EV 120 Skimmer
80 lbs LR, DSB in FUGE, 1 - 2 " LS in tank
Black Brittle Star, Chevron Tang, Crocea Clam, red & green Lobophyllia, Frogspawn, Porites Frag, Caulastrea Frag, Green Ricordia, Asst. Zoas, hermits, astreas, stomatellas, fighting conch  | |
| | |
02-04-2005, 08:55 AM
|
#10 (permalink)
| | Aiptasia Anemone
Join Date: May 2004 Location: San Diego, CA,California Age: 53
Posts: 577
Karma: 86
| Re: Infected Coral please help identify illness
If you guys get a chance check this link too. This guy has Valonia, I think. I've only seen the pea shaped bubblies...but it still looks like it!! http://www.3reef.com/cgi-bin/yabb/Ya...8757;start=1#1
I also saw the Valonia here but what is the red stuff...I've looked but have not found an ID?
Drew _________  80 gal plywood/glass reef tank, AquaC Urchin Pro w/Mag 3, 38gal Sump/refugium w/Mag9.5, 2 Maxi Jet 1200, 2-200 watt Hagen Heaters, 100lbs CaribSea Aragonite, 80lbs handmade Aragocrete rock, 2-110W 48" VHO Actinic Blue, 2-110W 48" VHO 50/50, RO/DI, DIY coiled denitrator, Bi-color Blenny, Damsel, Yellow Tang, red/green lobophyllia, zooanthid frag, cabbage coral, asst. mushrooms, toadstool leather, frogspawn | |
| | | Reef Links |  | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | All times are GMT -7. The time now is 05:28 AM. |
