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    Default Monti cap bleaching from the middle out

    I left town for the weekend and came back to find a green monti cap with a big white patch in the middle of it. The bleached area in the middle is ringed by a light brown area that looks like the coral expelling its zooxanthellae. From this morning to lunch, it does look like the bleached area is expanding. I've got a second green cap and an orange cap in this tank that are both doing just fine. Any ideas what might be causing this?

    Derry

    Current params:
    Salinity 1.026
    Ammonia 0
    Nitrite 0
    Nitrate 0
    Phosphate 0
    pH 8.3
    dKH 13
    Ca 320
    (I got a bad Ca test kit that was throwing my readings off for a while - need to bring dKH down and Ca up)
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    Any chance anything else from the tank fell there, and then blew off or moved off? Like an anemone or another coral?
    Bill

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    nudis?

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    Bill, there's always the possibility that something contacted the monti, but I haven't seen anything more dangerous than the occasional snail.

    Glenn, no sign of nudis. I took a really close look last night, and I can't see anything that resembles either eggs or the nudibranchs themselves.

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