Corals okay during bacterial bloom?

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Hey guys... Not entirely sure if this is a full frogspawn or some sort of Frammer? But we got this beauty a week or so ago and it's been doing great with great extensions and opening fully.

We've had a bit of a bacteria bloom the last few days, and today and yesterday, it's been looking not as vibrant. We were mostly concerned about it looking like some of its skeleton possibly exposing, or is it just simply more closed up temporarily?

Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate are all in good numbers. Gonna do the alk, CA, etc test in just a bit.

Since the bloom, our toadstool has been angry as well. It completely folded over and is opening a lot less polyps than it was before. I wasn't sure if this was a shed or the bloom affecting it.

Mushrooms, firework polyps, GSP, those are all doing great.

I added some chemi pure blue to aid with the cloudy water, and ordered a UV sterilizer.

Thanks!

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Some say they can lower oxygen in the system. Could try for more surface agitation to help it. UV sterilizer or maybe some carbon.
 
Here are the results. I added some chemi pure blue yesterday, so Phosphate should come down some.

Ca: 440
Phosphate - 0.25
Nitrate - 5
Kh - 9 - 161.1
 

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