Lost the first battle with brown slime...

[pntbll687]

So sunday a crab/snail knocked a birdsnest plug out of the holder in the bottom of the tank, and it fell into a hammer coral. Then it got bad, a small white spot on the birds nest developed when I picked the plug up, I thought no big deal since it did hit something else, must be irritated. The next day some brown slime was on the white spot, I figured it was "healing", man was I wrong!

 

I went home on lunch today and there is nothing left! its just a bleach white skeleton, no brown slime left, no birds nest at all.

 

What do you guys do for this stuff? Seems like it would be easy to lose a whole tank if things are tightly spaced.

[beyondcomp251]

Brown slime is typically an LPS issue even more specific Euphyllia. Not sure that was the problem on your SPS. More than likely the sting stressed it and once necrosis starts its hard to stop. My tank is packed to the brim with LPS and in the event stress results in brown jelly taking hold, if it is kept clean (ie blowing it off with a turkey baster often) it often will prevent it from spreading. In my experience anyway. I have saved colonies utilizing that method. dips are good too but find this adds more stress. Once Jelly hits that section of the coral is a goner. Just try to save the remaining heads/mouths.

[Hig789]

most euphyllia play well together, the exception being torches. But they normally don't play well with others. I have kept my hammer and frogspawn so close they touch but I keep them away from other coral.

 

 

Had my frogspawn get knocked off the rock into a colony of zoas and it really pissed the zoas off but luckily they opened back up in a few days. But my frogspawn blew up really big and touched another frag of zoas and the frogspawn retracted and the zoas didn't even close up.

 

Sorry for your loss. If the corals are just growing together they will either put out sweepers or chemicals to keep other corals from getting too close. But sometimes corals like xenia and star polyps grown too fast for the other coral to do anything before it gets over run.