Is my sand bed stinging my corals?

[toddmau5]

A couple of pieces have gotten knocked off the rocks or flipped over, either the tang of the rabbit fish searching for food, however I am pretty good about picking them up as soon as I see them, the last two pieces to get flipped have looked just like they have been stung by another coral, by there are no other corals near where they fell. The rainbow stylo had the tips that hit the sand bleached, I know that if they go without light they can turn white and usually come back but the tips are now dead, this morning I noticed my favorite chalice broken off the rocks and up side down, fliped upside down. I pulled it out of the sand and it's a complete goner. Is it possible for my sand bed to do this?

 

[TampaSnooker]

They are being smothered. No light, no flow, no exchange of O2/wastes. Plus, depending on your sandbed, there may be critters having lunch on the free delivery.

 

[toddmau5]

If had stuff end up in the sand bed before, just never had damage anywhere close to this in that short amount of time. There has to be a better glue [emoji35]

 

[LiquidCache]

Same thing happens to mine now that I have extremely fine substrate

 

[rogergolf66]

If had stuff end up in the sand bed before, just never had damage anywhere close to this in that short amount of time. There has to be a better glue [emoji35]

Are u coming to the meeting tomorrow? If so I can show u how to mount them so nothing will be able to knock them over again.