Help! Meteor shower crash

[AFHokie]

Yesterday I went to the LFS and got 4 new frags. A galaxea, porites, miyagi tort, and meteor shower cyphastrea.

I temp acclimated like usual and did a 15 minute dip in DipX.

Last night they went in the tank and looked fine. This morning everything is looking great expect the meteor shower. The miyagi is even showing PE. They all came from the same LFS water and I’ve had no problems with other frags from them.

This is what the cyphastrea looks like today.




I put it down low in a darker area but could it still have been too bright? The LFS runs T5s only. I have since moved it to an even shadier spot. Could it be from the dip? Alk too high?


Params this morning except for PO4 which is from a couple days ago.
1.026
9.9 dKH
Ca: 435
NO3: 6
PO4: 0.06

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

to me it looks bleached, its normally a "lower light" coral, hopefully it will recover since you've moved it down

 

[AFHokie]

to me it looks bleached, its normally a "lower light" coral, hopefully it will recover since you've moved it down

Thanks, I’m hoping so.

It’s crazy how fast it took a dive. Put it in yesterday around 2-3 pm and by noon today it’s like this.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

yes, light blast will cause corals to bleach overnight, I've found that out a few times