Brown slime on Flower Pot
 

Light brown slimy stuff on a flower pot coral. I rinsed it off but it came right back. Any ideas?

Sounds like brown jelly disease which is not a good thing:(

Here is some infor on it. Every coral i have had that got it died unfortunety.

http://www.athiel.com/lib/bacterial.html

Good luck

Craig

I think your right....

Get some lugols and follow the directions and dip it. Also definetly suction it off of it.

After thinking about it i had one survive and it is huge now. The problem is that it can spread to other corals so do what you need to quickly.

Craig

And unfortunately, Goniopora (which I'm assuming you're talking about) doesn't have a very high survival rate with brown jelly.

If you know how to frag it, now might be a good time.

For reference: http://goniopora.org/fragmentation.htm

And from that site, as well:

"Treat the coral by removing it from the tank and place it in a container with an iodine solution. Gently blow the brown jelly off while the coral is in the solution AFTER removing it from the display tank."

I put the coral in an isolation tank...to little to late I think its totally covered now. It happened so fast!!! Moved it from one tank to the other & within a couple of hours.....so sad!

When I had it a few years ago it spread like wildfire, it was amazing how fast it destroyed everything it touched! I got rid of it by using Lugols, it worked great for me. Good luck.

When I was new to the hobby I would buy then do the bulk of my research... it seems as though this is the fate of most goni's that are kept in tanks... It happened to me :(