I have had this same type of experience.. in my tank it "killed off" an entire group of green zoas that were surrounded by orange zoas. The orange zoas were never affected. Interestingly enough, a month later, the zoas I thought had died began to come back. My whammin' watermelons are going through the same thing right now as well. I am of the mindset that you help them as much as possible (dips, cleaning with high flow) and hope for the best. Sometimes nature is very random
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