Can one corals death cause a chain reaction?

[Son Of Skyline]

Originally Posted by KPG007

I've had mushrooms sting colonies, they die where they were stung, but I've never had a colony die because of that. Can that happen?

Some of my sps colonies are bordered by mushrooms and/or ricordia and none of the sps are stressed either. The surface of the coral dies where the shrooms meets, but then the sps will start to grow around and over the shrooms. It creates a nice natural border. My vote is for another stressor!