Montipora Plate Coral (Montipora capricornus) turning white

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Yip, a picture could help us identify a possible problem.
Did you change anything about your lighting recently. (replaced bulbs / increased intensity / moved coral higher?)
 
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Yip, a picture could help us identify a possible problem.
Did you change anything about your lighting recently. (replaced bulbs / increased intensity / moved coral higher?)
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No nothing was changed! Checked water parms and all in check! Could my cleaner shrimp be the cuase?
 
First time ive seen a monti turn that color... Looks like a fungi infection or something (not that ive ever seen that on a sps...)
 
I have a green plating monti that has for the second time started to get white patches on parts of the coral both times i have checked my alk and it was low at 6 dhk - 7 dhk.. could be one of the reasons

then when i added something to get the alk back up took few days and was green and back to normal colour
 
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Did you pour RO water (or any other sources of freshwater) on it?
I almost lost my first monti because I did an iodine dip with RO when I got it...:whistling:
 
@459b I also thought of physical damage as the white appeared over nite! My suspect was the cleaner shrimp. Just a thought, did a water test and every thing is ok!
 
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