Frag bleached overnight?

Ramon Estevez

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I’ve been adding small frags to the tank drip acclimating for 30 minutes then into the tank. Recently got a few LPS frags one has done great the other bleached almost overnight. Still see some polyps left but I don’t have much hope for it. My PH is 8.0, salinity 1.024-1.025, phosphate and Nitrate almost undetectable. The only thing I can put two is light intensity? Any thoughts ?
 

Above the Hammer coral

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Just to scratch off a possibility here but could your heater be malfunctioning at night? Do you have alarms that will notify you if the temp gets to warm?
 
Anytime I’ve accidentally bleached I lower my light intensity and it takes a few days to see color come back then I slowly start increasing the light back to normal or I will lower the animal away from the light
 

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