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What species of Clownfish? I ask because the animals you listed can thrive in higher water temperatures with the exception of a couple Clownfish species. The key though is to keep the temperature consistent so they can adapt to it completely. A small fan just blowing on the tank itself will...

What animals to you plan to keep in the tank? How did you cool it? What is the temperature of the room it is in? Do you have a fan blowing anywhere on the tank?

Snowflake Clownfish are Ocellaris sp.

Those fish all sound compatible as long as the Clownfish are both the same species.

Look like an infection to me. Is it getting enough water flow?

I don't consider them bad for all SW tanks. I do not think they are appropriate for a reef tank though. Sure, they polish the water real clean but also clean up all the beneficial bug larvae before the corals can eat them.

Any animal that rapidly builds skeleton will inadvertently consume Magnesium. Magnesium attaches to Calcium carbonate crystals. This effectively stops the crystal from growing. In an animal like a clam they continue to lay more shell over the Magnesium laden crystals already laid down. This...

+1 Absolutely!

The sclerites in the "stiffer" soft corals are Calcium carbonate. This includes Zoanthids, Leathers, Nepthia, etc.

I'd like to also intervene a little, just a little. "Since zoas and protos don't have calcified skeletons, the demand for calcium carbonate should be fairly low in this tank" I disagree with this statement in general, perhaps not in this specific scenario though. The OP doesn't have an...

It looks to me like a type of algae called Branching Coralline. No common animal, including pods, in the hobby will eat it. A Parrot fish would eat it but not a lot of people have the ability to keep one of those.

Protopalythoa

yep

o_O Yeah, this is as good as it gets for reef addiction therapy LOL

That's why I hesitate to comment. They ARE still very toxic and need to be handled as toxic as there are literally hundreds of different toxins associated with Zoanthids.

I never know to comment on this or not. Protopalythoa and pretty much all Zoanthids do produce seriously bad toxins. Palytoxin has only been found in Palythoa residing in a specific lagoon hosting a specific bacteria found nowhere else. So, we're not going to find Palytoxin in our aquariums...

I have no ideas other than I highly doubt your P04 levels had anything to do with the genocide.

I believe they are brackish animals. What is your salinity?

My understanding of Opae is that their ntural environment is in pools by the shore which are high in phosphates and other nutrients. Therefore I doubt you could get your phosphates high enough to harm them.

I'm pretty sure it's Protopalythoa. No normal Foxface will eat it.