you may have also had light too close, but those plants need fertilizer, too.
resulting node spacing is your guide for the light. they will want increasingly more light over next week or two -- after you get them back on track and growing well.
when those cotyledons pale, usually a good time to start fertilizing.. start light and ramp up, if in soil. with soilless sould be fertilizing from 2nd irrigation on every time with 10% runoff. if doing it right, should not be too much for a young plant in soilless.. .soil is different. you wait before you supplement soil with fertilizer and slowly ramp up as needed