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I am still relatively new to reef keeping. Yesterday I bought some new corals to add to my 30 gal tank. I bought two sps and a mushroom. I dipped them (no more than 2-3 min each) and spent an hour acclimating them. I placed them in the tank and all looked well for about 4 hours when i went to bed. Woke up this morning and one of the sps looks mostly bleached. There is still bright red in the little divots on its skeleton. The other spa and mushroom are doing well. The only thing I can think of is the mushroom got angry when I placed it and put off TONS of slime. The power heads blew some of this over the coral and it got stuck to it. I do water checks weekly and did one before I went to the fish store. They are as follows temp 77.7, salt 1.022, ph 8.15, nitrates 2.5, posphate .03, alk 9.1, mag 1215, and calc 410.
Is it the slim or possibly just bad reaction to the aacclimation? Any chance it will come back or anything I might be able to do to save it?
Is it the slim or possibly just bad reaction to the aacclimation? Any chance it will come back or anything I might be able to do to save it?