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[Dragon174]

I’ve been fighting something in my tank and yesterday did a water change. I had the water sitting over night and forgot to plug the heater in. Did my water change and now my bubble gum digi, forest fire digi, green monipora cap are all white. what the heck. Do you think there could have been enough of a temp swing to cause them all to turn white? Are they all dead? Please help!!!!

 

[Webslinger]

What % of water was changed

 

[Dragon174]

20%. I ran chemiclean so waited 48 hours then did the water change.

 

[Webslinger]

whats the temp of tank?

 

[Dragon174]

Tank always runs 77.6 didn’t look at what the temp went down too but that is the only thing I can think would have caused and issu.

 

[vetteguy53081]

In part will affect the monti as salinity is affected by temperature. It went down likely gradually so recovery has a good chance. Most you will find keep tank at 78-79 deg and hopefully you entered water at same temp as tank and not colder

 

[Dragon174]

 

[Dragon174]

The bubble gum and forest fire look like they could be coming back but the monti cap doesn’t look good at all.

 

[Dragon174]

Here is a better pic under whites. Still has a little color

 

[Dragon174]

Checked all of my water parameters, and everything checks out. Thought it was the salt that I used, so I did an experiment with a 10 gallon tank and a frag I got from the LFS. Took 5 gallons out of my tank and let the frag open up. Mixed 5 gallons of new saltwater with the salt that I thought caused the issue. Added it to the 10 gallon tank. At first the polyps on the little sps frag retracted but opened back up after a couple hours.

I am so puzzled at what is causing all of my corals to bleach and my LPS to stay retracted.

I started running carbon and a poly-filter to see if anything got into the water. The poly-filter which should have changed colors stayed completely white (original color).

What could have caused my tank to completely crash? All of the fish seem just fine. I'm at such a lose right now.