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That sounds exactly like what happened when my nitrates pegged to zero. Everything looked especially colorful one day, went pastel a few days later and I started getting dinos & cyano immediately after. I checked my nitrates with salifert test and the vial was as clear as vodka, eeek. I was able to save most of my corals by feeding everything in the tank partially chopped up mysis for the following week and turning off my ats & skimmer. I had the same issue later with chaeto and swore to never keep more than a baseball sized ball of it per 100 gallons again. Dealing with too much nitrates is easy. Dealing with too little nitrates is hard and simply dosing nitrates from a bottle has always caused a slew of additional issues in my experience.
Your story sounds like mine cept eith phosphates.. i had s hair algae issue in my tank.. phosphates were .50ppm... I got seachems phosguard and i put in like half a socks worth in a 55g hexagon.... it did take a week or so before i noticed the phosohates to drop to NEAR 0 not 0 but close. And when it happened my corals all started to close up.. i really noticed it on my octo and frogspawns.. and my bubble corals.
M.k i took that stuff out and phosphates went back to .50ppm and evrrything opened backup.
To fix my hair algae issues.. i got two pincushion and tuxedo urchins. And a small like 3 or 4 inch foxface.
No more chemicals or gfo for me