Is Brown Jelly Disease between LPS only, or can it be carried into your system on a Softie as well ? – 10/02/08
<Mmm, strictly speaking, the latter>
Hello. Quick question for you. I was going to meet another reefer tonight to swap some zoo frags, and possibly swap a LPS. I was looking for pictures of his tank on
a local forum, and found that he had a problem with Brown Jelly about 2 weeks ago on one of his large wall hammers, that killed off about 85% of it.
<Yeeikes>
Should I cancel the trade of the zoos with him or can a soft coral not carry the bacteria into my tank?
<I would either cancel, or plan on isolating any newcomers for a few to several weeks... running them through a slightly depressed (a thousandth or two) spg... and iodine/ide treatment/bath enroute>
Should I definitely keep away from trading any LPS and Softies as well with him ?
<Anything in the tank, the water itself, could be a "carrier" of hyperinfective agents>
How contagious is Brown Jelly between healthy corals if a coral comes from a tank that recently lost a coral to Brown Jelly?
<Can be devastating to not so>
I know....my bad, but I don't have a Quarantine set up.
Thanks!
Pam
<You've answered the question then... I would put the money instead into/towards this new set up. Bob Fenner>