MarinePure Ceramic Biomedia and anemones -- good or bad?

So I had a rocking frag tank with SPS polyps out all day and great color. I have the perfect sump for the MarinePure 2" cubes so I figured i would give them a try, so I put in 1/2 cubic foot. Within 2 hours of introducing the marine pure my sps polyps were gone and the colors began to fade. I figured no biggie and I would give it a day or two. After day 2 SPS had no color and no polyp extension. I removed the MarinePure did a 20% water change. This did not seem to help. After day 4 things were looking terrible so I did a 50% water change. No improvement. Here we are a little over a week after introducing MP and i am starting to lose SPS. I am 95% certain that all of this is due to the MP. When I introduced the MP all polyps were out. I did not do a water change or change anything, just put in the MP. I am really regretting my decision.

Areas I may have gone wrong. I did not rinse prior to introduction to my tank-- however, the tank was never cloudy. Also I put the MP in an incredibly high flow area. Even so it should not have done this to my SPS.

the real question is what to do now..... More water changes even though it looks like my SPS will die if shocked any more? or just try and let things settle and hope all of the toxin is gone?
 
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Don't know if this helps because I have never sent my water in for testing but I've been using bio pure in all my tanks for the last 2.5 years or so and no problems. Using a couple 8"x4" blocks with haddoni, maxi, BTA, rfa nems with no issues. This tank that I setup for frags, maxis and rocks flowers had the spheres as a substrate for a little over a year without issue.
 

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I added an 8x8x4 block 2 days ago and none of my anemones were affected. I have an LTA, Gigantea, Haddoni, maximini's and Sebae.
 
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