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Elegance poop or BJD?

JTFletch

JTFletch

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Hello. Can someone help me identify if this is Brown Jelly Disease or poop? My elegance has been producing this clear/brown slime everyday for the past 2-3 weeks. I siphon it off whenever I see it, but it comes back. I’ve done 4 hydrogen peroxide dips, but it comes back. I do broadcast feed the tank daily, due to all the other corals that need it, but this slime has never happened until a few weeks back. The elegance has been with me for 5 months.
Sorry for low quality images. They were pulled from a video that I had on hand.
 

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Pretty hard to see with all the blue and low lighting, plus can't see the video you linked, maybe upload to Youtube? As Erin said, if it's from the mouth it's fine, corals often expel excess symbiodinium at the end of day if they're adapting to higher lighting (I see this with euphyllia or even anemones a lot).
 
Darkxerox said:
Pretty hard to see with all the blue and low lighting, plus can't see the video you linked, maybe upload to Youtube? As Erin said, if it's from the mouth it's fine, corals often expel excess symbiodinium at the end of day if they're adapting to higher lighting (I see this with euphyllia or even anemones a lot).
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Thank you for your insight. I think I will post it to YouTube and attach the link. The video helps a lot!
 
Darkxerox said:
Pretty hard to see with all the blue and low lighting, plus can't see the video you linked, maybe upload to Youtube? As Erin said, if it's from the mouth it's fine, corals often expel excess symbiodinium at the end of day if they're adapting to higher lighting (I see this with euphyllia or even anemones a lot).
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I attached the link to the youtube video on the post now. Thanks again for the suggestion.
 
Looks like probably poop from that video now. As long as it isn't showing exposed skeleton, a gaping mouth for long periods, inflating properly during the day (my corals often shrink up once in the evening too), and aren't showing "pinched" looking tentacles most of the day, you should be fine.
 
Darkxerox said:
Does that still happen with the Australian collected ones though? Or are they just likely to carry it in during import? @Arvin R grows the most here, I'll see what he says and has seen the past couple years.
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I don’t know the answer to that, but what I will say and I hate to admit this, but I have killed many an elegance coral. I was a sucker for elegances (as @SupraSaltyReefer can attest to) and my experience with them is that Indo or Aussie, they are very susceptible to bacterial infections. As the thread above says, the bacterial infection is likely secondary, but my guess is, if it’s not Elegance Coral Syndrome (ECS) that’s the primary reason, it’s that they’re so easily damaged. That huge external skeleton with exposed flesh, lends itself to be easily damaged by a fish or snail or crab to brush against it to do damage. Even pouring water on it during a water change can rip that thing.

Or, maybe elegances are just that coral for me that I can’t keep alive. Sure, I’ve had mild success with keeping a couple alive for over a year, but they all just seem to eventually die on me. The only one I kept alive for 18 months I ended up selling, but I got fed up with them. ;)
 
Hey, all! I figured it out and saved it (I think). So about 10 - 15%% of the elegance coral was outside of the overhang shadow. I noticed this and scooted it back about 1 inch. This allowed the entire elegance to be 100% in the shadows. Within 3 days, the elegance stopped producing the mucus and began opening up again. Currently it seems fully open, but it is looking bleached out and some of the tentacles look like they have melted away. Getting better everyday. Crazy how sensitive this coral is!
 
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