Can one corals death cause a chain reaction?

[asylumdown]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

If it is brown jelly and if it is caused by a vibrio bacteria, it could spread to other corals around it. I have seen it go from a duncan to a sps and I managed to save the duncan with a peroxyd dip then but lost the sps.

Virbrio. Nasty nasty nasty stuff. Nearly put me off raw oysters for good, and certainly ruined an entire trip to New York.

[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!