Coral brown slime disease, help? What causes it? How to cure?

Matt,

I do believe you can save the coral. First, I would quarantine. Remove the brown jelly/slime as often as you can. Get yourself some "coral disinfectant" and doa dip. http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=coral+dis...

Then keep isolated in a quarantine tank with some higher flow to help keep the slime off the coral.

The coral caught the disease from some damage. As the other poster eluded, it can often be due to stress from high nitrates or water quality, but also could have been from a sting from a nearby coral, a hermit crab or other invert walking on the coral and accidentally harming it, something falling on the coral, etc. The stress or would then leaves a weak point for the brown jelly to attack.

Since your water tests rule out water quality, look to other changes. But still test for pH and other likely contributing factors to the red slime. Likely it was a two step process. You might have introduced the red slime problem with the chaeto and something damaged the frogspawn, leaving it open to infection. Test your iodine levels as well to make sure they are proper (too many people get caught up on calcium, magnesium, etc, have a great system that help reduce water changes..but then their iodine levels get severely depleted as they are forgotten).

I would use the antibiotic for the red slime in the main system as you try to save the coral in the isolation system.

well, red slime algae is usually related to a build up of nitrate, organic waste, lack of water flow, high fish or fish food loads etc, or phosphates. Older tanks can have this generally slide toward higher waste loads and the slime that comes with it. Also aging light bulbs can trigger slime algaes/bacterial slimes.

I'd use the antibiotic, and water changes, since the red slime remover is only covering up the cause.

Check on other forums for the proper procedure to do a dip treatment.

look into your supplements, perhaps it's time for some iodine or other additive.

Chances are good that it's just water quality and you need a slight change in something, either maintenance or additives..

Coral Brown

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