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Just_me_Dupree
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possible fungus ? maybe a peroxide dip
lionfish5740
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Furan-2 dip for 20min followed by an iodine dip for 5-10min. I also carefully scraped the film off them between the dips. Might take a few days of repeating this. That is what fixed the same problem in my tank.
joshporksandwich
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This sounds interesting. Have you tried it before Lion? I would love to hear results.
lionfish5740
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Yes Josh, this is exactly what I did last week. My fruit loops colony melted first and that made me inspect all of my zoas/palys. I found a number of colonies that had 1/4 to 1/2 of the polyps (zoas only) not opening. I didn't know what it was so I pulled them out to find a brown slime layer coating them, it was thickest around their base. Wasn't sure if it was fungal or bacterial so I did the Furan-2 dip first. Then used a narrow (but not sharp) tool from my fragging kit to methodically scrape what is could from the polyps and the plugs around their base. It was much worse than it originally looked. Then a concentrated iodine dip for good measure. Noticed some more polyps open up that day but not all of them so a couple days later did it again. Most of the polyps that I thought were too far gone have since recovered and some didn't make it. Only lost one colony out of the dozen that was affected and maybe half dozen polyps all together from the other colonies. After all that I did a larger than usual water change, ~30% or so. It felt like busy work and I still don't know exactly what it was but my corals are open big and happy now more than ever 
joshporksandwich
Zoa addict
Yes Josh, this is exactly what I did last week. My fruit loops colony melted first and that made me inspect all of my zoas/palys. I found a number of colonies that had 1/4 to 1/2 of the polyps (zoas only) not opening. I didn't know what it was so I pulled them out to find a brown slime layer coating them, it was thickest around their base. Wasn't sure if it was fungal or bacterial so I did the Furan-2 dip first. Then used a narrow (but not sharp) tool from my fragging kit to methodically scrape what is could from the polyps and the plugs around their base. It was much worse than it originally looked. Then a concentrated iodine dip for good measure. Noticed some more polyps open up that day but not all of them so a couple days later did it again. Most of the polyps that I thought were too far gone have since recovered and some didn't make it. Only lost one colony out of the dozen that was affected and maybe half dozen polyps all together from the other colonies. After all that I did a larger than usual water change, ~30% or so. It felt like busy work and I still don't know exactly what it was but my corals are open big and happy now more than ever
Cool man sounds awesome. Thanks for sharing
lionfish5740
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I use Lugols iodine at a more concentrated dose ~6-8 drops for a cup of tank water for no more than 5min.
lionfish5740
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I ran across another thread where somebody said that they use Kordon Malachite Green for the brown film. I haven't seen that stuff since undergrad microbiology class lol. I don't recall the exact thread though, sorry. Keep us updated on your progress Seagars.
