Infected Coral please help identify illness

Hello....help

I have this sun coral that has this slimey gooey slippery type of algae growing on it. It started out as a small globe looking thing about the size of a pea. It actually started inside of one of the long dead frogspawn branches that came with my single head frogspawn. All I could see is a little translucent red spot. It got a little bigger and then I noticed it on this coral in the pic. This stuff has grown over about a month. It has spread to 2 zoonathid rocks but I removed it from there. I have seen it clear on the other end of my 30 gallon on a coral. This is the only one that looks threatened but it still spreading. Tonight I took it out of the tank and tryed to manually remove it and it is very slippery and slimey. I cannot remove it with my fingets as it just kindof melts into a stickey oose in my fingers. I did a iodine dip tonight and moved ir to a powerhead for now.
Someone please tell me what it is.

Desparate!

Jay

 

Bump.....I guess Im impatient. JohnO....BL...Matt..anyone


Jat :-/

 

Ok, I found one of the little bubble looking things and pulled it out of the tank. It is translucent and the color of red wine. It is hollow and I had to squeeze it to make it pop. Out came this thick clear slime the consistency of well for lack of better words, snot. I know sorry to gross you out..hehe. WTF is it?

Jay

 

Bubble algae aka Valonia aka sailors eye. Try not to pop them in your tank as they contain spores. They can grow into a nuisance fairly quickly.

 

How do I get rid of it? I hate to throw out a living coral.

Jay

 

Thanks...I have found a link for the treatment. Thanks Gresham

Jay

 

Gresham is there also a red bubble algae? .... John

 

[quote author=Gresham link=board=ASAP;num=1107500536;start=0#3 date=02/04/05 at 07:17:21]Bubble algae aka Valonia aka sailors eye.  Try not to pop them in your tank as they contain spores.  They can grow into a nuisance fairly quickly.[/quote]

I have that stuff too. I can't stand it. I hope my phosphate reactor will help when I get it in the mail.

What is the link Jay?

 

Yes, expand here please...

I see the valonia in the picture, but what is the red stuff?

I need that link also, Jay....I have a bit of the bubbly in my tank as well!

 

If you guys get a chance check this link too. This guy has Valonia, I think. I've only seen the pea shaped bubblies...but it still looks like it!!

http://www.3reef.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Algae;action=display;num=1107498757;start=1#1

I also saw the Valonia here but what is the red stuff...I've looked but have not found an ID?

Drew