Help. Bleaching after salinity drop

Danmuges

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I have been in the hobby a few years now and I stupidly dropped my salinity from 1.030 to 1.026 in a matter of minutes causing most of my corals to bleach or close up. My salinity was high due to an uncalibrated Hanna checker and I freaked out and dumped a heap of R/O to drop it which I now realise was a stupid idea.
The sps still have all their polyps so aren't dead, just ghostly White. What should I do to get these back to normal? A lot of my zoas also closed up and have yet to open back up after around 4 days. GSP also receided.
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Dinos just about killed this one.
April 8th pic and today.
My Sunset monty went bleach white a few months back after a mishap and my sg went to 1.021.
Here it is today, bounced back and growing like crazy.
Just get it back and keep it stable, they should come back.
 

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