Frag Pack & Fish Kill, chemical warfare?

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Put my WWC coral frags (7-8 various) in my tank last night after dipping them-my question is can to many frags overwhelm a tank with so much chemical warfare that fish and inverts die? This is what is happening. I did my usual water change & parameter checks last night, woke up to a graveyard going on. I don't know if I should chuck the new frags off the Skyway bridge (I'm so frustrated obviously) to save what inverts & live rock is left or pull the inverts still alive & find them a new home to save them?!?!

I did another water change, tweezered out anything dead I could find, Added yet another filter with Dr Gs now in tank this morning.

I have a Biorb 30 life converted into a nano reef started with live sand & wet live rock from TBLR. I run an in-tank GFO canister along with Koralias. Had 1 clown, 1 dottyback, CUC, 1 conch.

If you have been there what were your next steps & time it took between them??
 
How old is the tank? Separate question: How long were the fish in it?
 
Did you get any of your coral dip in the tank. Did you rinse the frags after the dip? Dip is used to kill stuff with a nervous system. Do the corals look healthy just not the live stock?
 
What dip did you use? As Ubans13 said did you get it in your tank?
 
Three Little Fishes Revive used. Dipped in solution then dipped into rinse dish 1, then rinse dish 2 which is what I used to transfer them from one room to tank room.
Tank is early Spring this year, fish were 2-3 months in now. Have been religious about weekly water change, "wash" the rocks with siphon, not over feeding, went thru cycle well etc. I had already purchased a few frags which have been doing well (leather coral, joshua, star polyps-did buy a birdsnest that does not seem as good as it should be) went thru same dip process as yesterday -a few diatoms now & then, a lil green algae once but mostly diatoms if I let my weekly water change go over by 2 days.
Yes. Frags perked up fine - fish dead. Wow maybe something went wong with rinse process....I feel sick....I am watching the urchins & conch behavior....if rinse process went bad then water change would help...just hoping not chemical warfare.
 
I didn't think coral allelopathy could affect fish or inverts like shrimp, but the leather could be a culprit.

Here is an old thread, could be just coincidence but it is a similarly sized and shaped tank with the same problem.
 
Oh, man. I'm sorry to hear about your fish. It kind of sounds like somehow dip got into the tank to me. I put about 13 frags from WWC into my 14 gallon Biocube all at once from the live sale that they had in the summer and had no issues, but I could've just been lucky I guess.
 

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