Aren't there general causes for brown jelly disease (or what ever the scientific name is). I read that the jelly is full of organisms munching down on the coral Most of the time isnt it caused by an injury to the coral tissue?
elegances today are getting slammed with it, regardless of the state they arrive in i'd say over 80% of all arriving into the country are getting hit w/ it, based on what i've seen at the import level, over a 4-5 month period
I wonder what makes them so apt to get the malady? Are they shipped a different way than other corals are. I suppose that they could simply be weaker to begin with over the past decade or so because of some oceanic trend (I know it's far fetched.. but does anyone else have a better idea)>?
i think it may have something to do with a shrinking gene pool, to a geographically localized gene pool from overcollection in specific areas, to poor handling, a specific pathogen being in most systems circulation (due to introduction via centralized collection/handling facilities,much like the infamous freshwater 'angelfish virus' from some years back) or a combination of all of the above