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??
 

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How old is the tank? Separate question: How long were the fish in it?
 

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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?
 

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What dip did you use? As Ubans13 said did you get it in your tank?
 
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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.
 

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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.
 

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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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