What is this growing in a friends tank?

[bronck83]

cliffs on friends tank:

45 gallon salt water tank, fairly stable for ~12 years
a week ago all the anemones shriveled up for unknown reasons.
did a water change, now most things are growing back.
these white 'bubbles' are growing on a few of the stalks.

[bronck83]

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[hobogato]

looks like brown jelly disease.

[bronck83]

What are these white things?

[hobogato]

never seen anything like that.... try melev's website, he has some good id pages.

[Mr Cob]

No help here....but I just had to comment on how scary those pics look.

[BioCube14]

dont know i would loss that old coral it looks dead anyways and clean up what you can.and finally do a big water change

[bronck83]

BTW, this isn't my tank. It's a co-worker's brothers tank and has been setup & running for about 12 years at his parents house. He moved out probably at least 5 years ago and as far as I know nothing has been done to it except for adding water & the occasional water change. Supposedly there are fish still alive in it though I've never seen it for myself.

[Paul28]

ummm thats nasty if it was me it would be in the trash before it killed something but thats just me