!!!Montipora bleaching!!! HELP

[josh_crosson]

I had to rush out of the house the other day and left my halide light on my tank for a complete day ( couldnt make it back home) and my montipora is started to bleach out what can i do?

[josh_crosson]

i did see brown polyps still where there was the bleaching though, so its no sighns of tissue loss

[Reefland]

There are two things you can do:
1. Get the tank lighting back to normal for the coral.
2. Get the lighting on a timer so the light cycle is predictable and constant.

[josh_crosson]

because i still have polyps out mean its gonna be ok? and i had a timer on it but had a small problem with one so ditched it and good brand of timer better than the next?

[Reefland]

It is very hard to say what the coral will do from here. You will just have to continue to watch it closely. As for the timer, I don't think so. I use the $5 timers from Wal-Mart myself.