Brown jelly disease

Does this only effect corals or can it transfer onto my live rock as well.

Or maybe what I'm seeing is some type of algae that looks similar?

I Siphoned it out, but if it returns ill get some pics. And yes, I did have it on my green star polyp as well as on the live rock.

EDIT**
Also my phosphates were a little high as of this morning. Today I did two water changes, the first siphoning out the 'jelly' and the second grabbing anything i missed and for better water quality. Tomorrow morning I will retest and post. I may have to pick up a 'phosphate pillow' to lower them. Do you guys recommend them?

 

Brown jelly only affects LPS corals.

 

Well hopefully it's just algae. Well see in the morning.

 

Sounds like it's probably slime algae (cyanobacteria). Phosphate media will help, as will doing more frequent water changes for a while and increasing flow.

 

speaking of brown jelly, does it really look like jelly? I have seen twice a stringy brown/reddish thing coming out of my torch. It seems to break away from the torch with the water flow, but I really don't understand what it is. It almost looks like stringy beef if that makes any sense at all. It can be almost 2+ inches long.

p.s.- I feel like I am talking about car problems to a mechanic with this one. "It is making a vroom boom bang zzzzz sound!"

 

Alto, that sounds like coral poop, my torch does the same thing. Brown jelly covers the coral in a layer and there's usually dead coral skeleton underneath it where it's killed the coral off.

 

damn my torch takes major dumps then. When I see it should I scoop it out?