Brown Jelly?

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Help! Is this brown jelly?

First I lose an encrusting goni in a couple days (small frag) and it was covered in brown... but it could’ve just been dead tissue.
Then I see this... I dipped, rinse off, and plugged dead holes with some glue. However I’m seeing some more brown stuff today.
I did find Red cyano growing on one of my other corals... could that be it?

I rinsed it off by putting it in a bucket of salt water and use a turkey baster to blow off the brown stuff. It did not come off easily…
I did have a clown they kept trying to host it, but only for a day or two…

I don't think it's BJD because it's been almost a week!

Update: I did clean it out as mentioned above. Today, the "plugged" holes the same brown stuff in the pictures shown covering where the glue is. Coral looks and acts healthy otherwise.
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Probably not bjd if it's been there for a week. Bjd hits hard and fast. Usually wiping out the entire affected coral within 1-2 days. Cyano generally grows all over not just on corals so that is a bit concerning that you are only seeing this stuff on corals.
 
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Probably not bjd if it's been there for a week. Bjd hits hard and fast. Usually wiping out the entire affected coral within 1-2 days. Cyano generally grows all over not just on corals so that is a bit concerning that you are only seeing this stuff on corals.

Now, the clown kept trying to host it.. but he's now hosting with a nem.
 
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Ok... so I sucked up some of the brown stuff with Julian's thing and put it under a microscope.

Check this out.

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I have no idea what it is, but the same thing is going on with a new frag of Goni I just got two weeks ago. It happened to another colony that I had and it wiped out 70% of that colony. I have dipped this frag in Coral Revive 3x, and this stuff persists...
 

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I dipped it again this morning, then scraped the wasted cells of skeleton with a small metal tool, then dripped iodine into those cells. Then I dipped the entire frag in a heavy iodine solution and gave it a good shake for 20 secs or so. As of tonight, I don't have any PE on the frag to speak of, but the heavy sliming has not reappeared yet. Will update if it is back in the morning
 

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Update: Had brown jelly again yesterday morning so I tried Hydrogen Peroxide and Iodine again and moved to low flow/low light. Had no PE all day and Brown Jelly again this morning. Removed from frag tank to protect the rest of the coral. Total bummer
 
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Update: Had brown jelly again yesterday morning so I tried Hydrogen Peroxide and Iodine again and moved to low flow/low light. Had no PE all day and Brown Jelly again this morning. Removed from frag tank to protect the rest of the coral. Total bummer

Watch the video that I did, and that should help
 

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