New frags, one brown turd

Tflow256

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So about 4 weeks ago I picked up my first sticks. A ORA Frogskin, ORA Tri Color Validia, ORA Ice Tort, ORA Ant Insignis and a A&M Purple Fuzz. All are doing great after slowly acclimating to higher light except the Ant Insignis turned to a brown turd immediately after a dip in Bayer. I'm getting ready to mount all other corals to the rock work as they are looking/doing great. Should I leave the Ant Insignis on the rack or just mount it and see where it goes. No idea why this one browned out when all others are doing great. I do see some color coming back on the lower branches but nothing significant. Water Chem is as follows:
Temp-79
Salinity-1.025 (calibrated refrac)
Trate- undetectable (Red Sea)...working on raising this
P04-.02 (Hanna phosphorus)
Alk-8.0 (Hanna)
Cal-415-420 (Red Sea)
Mag- 1380 (Red Sea)

Any info on how to help this guy gain his color back is much appreciated!
 
Seeing how you didnt QT them, i would keep them all on a frag rack where you can monitor them closely. Check them for bugs every day for 3 weeks. The bites of aefw or red bugs are easy to see. Bayer does not kill eggs, ever from my understanding. It will **** off some corals hence the brown out. I bought a brown turd from my LFS and over month it still hasnt fully colored up yet, but it has started too and its looking pretty awesome. Your numbers look great and you seem knowledgeable. FYI i only QT once my tank is over a year old, i figure its a QT tank until the frags have grown out then its a do anything to protect it.

you can also start the rack lower than your planned rock placement and acclimate to your lighting. goodluck
 
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