UV Saved my tank!!!

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I woke up Monday to a cloudy tank and by Tuesday morning my zoas looked completely stressed out (not open), torch coral completely closed and receding, mushrooms completely shrunk. all sps and lps where closed with no PE and looked as if some where bleaching. Did a 30% water change on Monday and still didn't get better. I run carbon and gfo reactor and change them out religiously too. Of course this is the week i leave to go out of the state for business. I figured it had to be a ammonia or bacteria outbreak. Checked ammonia and it was fine, so then i turned to bacteria idea, so i set up a UV light just on a whim hoping that this will work before i head out to catch a plane. Well the next day came and i called my buddy to go check on it (24 hours) after i set up the UV, and there was no cloudiness once so ever and the corals where happy, all open with great PE on the SPS, my buddy couldn't even tell anything was wrong with my tank!! STOKED!!!:xd: Just thought id tell my story, not sure if anyone uses these regularly, but would like some input from reefers experience.
 
Not trying to be skeptical, but everything I read about bacteria is that they live on surfaces. Otherwise water changes would decimate your beneficial bacteria. Is I possible that the tank balanced itself out and the UV was credited with the improvement?
 
I am not 100% sure i just know things were getting progressively worse as the day progressed and the tank was only getting cloudier even after the water change and the saltwater had been mixing for 6 days that i used in the water change. i feel like it was in the free flowing in the water itself but just a guess after all. Man i was nervous, i guess this roller-coaster feeling is why i am addicted to the hobby!!
 
not knowing what caused it would be synonymous with the cure. Missing any anemones?
 

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