Brown slime on Flower Pot

[seashells]

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

[findingnemo1]

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

[seashells]

I think your right....

[findingnemo1]

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

[Der_Iron_Chef]

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.

[Der_Iron_Chef]

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."

[seashells]

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!

[RonPeter]

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.

[vanreefer]

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