Brown Jelly Disease...

[Gryphon]

...Is a pain in my butt. I just lost a 3.5in frag of Blue Cali Tort in about 24 hours. All started when the frag got knocked down onto my frogspawn. It bleached a tip and I didn't think it was bad. It was fine for about 2-3 days then last night I noticed almost half of it was white and it had brown slime swirling around it. Got home this morning and the whole thing was dead. I did manage to frag a small half inch piece of it last night as a precautionary measure, glad I did that now.

Anyone know where I can get some Metronidazole locally?

 

[user 26995]

are you treating the whole tank? or just dipping?

 

[Gryphon]

Right now I'm looking to pick it up as a precautionary, nothing else in the tank is showing signs of it, but if it pops up I want to be able to dip and QT anything that does. I have some Cipro on hand I picked up for my nems, but I don't know if that'll work as well as the metro or not.

 

[Gryphon]

I guess I should ask about chloramphenicol as well, from what I'm reading it is another treatment for BJD

 

[Gryphon]

Not my week apparently. Not only did it start with the loss of my blue cali tort, but last night I discovered an aiptasia sitting in my magician zoas, and today I found a good sized zoa eating nudibranch on the glass... ARGH

 

[Gryphon]

Oh yeah, and the discovery of some kinda black or very dark green algae that is fern-like similiar to byropsis.

 

[ngreenaway]

i think barrier reef has some metro. APFP had a couple boxes awhile back but i used it all for one of my discus tanks, they have yet to restock

 

[Aquanaut]

call sierra pets in renton. Ask for Jonas.

 

[Gryphon]

Well luckily so far I'm not seeing anything else showing signs of it, so hopefully I managed to keep it from spreading by pulling the remains of the cali tort out. But this is all good information just incase, thanks!