Orange Crush Bleaching

Saboral

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My setup is a 90 Gallon with two 400w South Pacific Sun SE Halides and 1 95w PC Actinic. All my other corals are doing fine and I tend to acclimate my corals using light diverter over the tank when I new one is added. I have two koralia 3s for flow. I also dose Kalk saturated top off water on a drop/sec rate for 12 hours every night. Everything in the tank is doing wonderful except for two pieces I've had. My new Orange Crush Acan and a Sunset Monti. Both suffer from bleaching that leads to algae growth and die off. I've moved both piece to different flow areas and it has not helped. I am at wits end. I also have been dosing Reef Builder twice a week at the recommended rate to keep my alkalinity up. I also use 5 drops of Lugols solution every week for light acclimation and the softies/polyps. Let me know what you guys think.
 
I would place it at the bottom and see if that helps. Sometimes it takes awhile to acclimate corals to your lighting.
I always start my new corals on the bottom and move them up gradually cuz I've bleached some with my T5's.

kass
 
I tried that originally and it started looking poor, so I moved it up to try and get it in a higher flow area. I agree with keeping it on the bottom I think I just need to rework my flow patterns.
 
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