I recently had a very fast growing brown jelly epidemic on my ricordeas and lost a few before I realized it was brown jelly. I used furan-2 and did a dip with saltwater, Lugol iodine at 1 drop per 100ml and Furan-2 one pouch for 500ml mixed together in a plastic container (not in the tank!) for about 45 to 60 minutes. I did that each day for about 4 to 5 days and my ricordea healed and the brown jelly stopped (stopped after the first treatment). That was about 2 weeks ago and no more sign of brown jelly. When ever you see brown jelly you should act fast and if the coral is too far gone then the furan-2 won't do much. It's the only medicine that worked for me and now most of my ricordeas are growing to full size again and recovering.
The brown jelly is caused by a bacteria (vibrio mostly) that attack the coral, then the protozoares are taking over, invading the coral and eating all of its zooxanthellae. The Furan-2 works against the bacterias and the lugol kill most of the protozoares.
A freshwater dip will probably kill your coral long before it kill the bacterias. I would not target feed it right away but wait until it recover and start to heal because putting food in there will only fuel the bacterias more, beside, that coral is way too sick to eat I am pretty sure.
It's contagious so don,t spread it by putting it in high flow.
Last edited by daniella3d; 03-05-2011 at 04:35 AM.
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