Dead coral use in calcium reactor?

[zachtos]

I have a 5 gallon pail full of dead SPS corals. I have bleach watered and cleaned them all so they are pure white and clean. Does anyone know if these can be used in a calcium reactor to be broken back down for use by other corals? Similar to the large gen-x media?

Are there other uses for the dead coral?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

They can, but if they were grown in a tank with elevated phosphate, for example, or possibly other "impurities", they may contain more and hence release more of these than would natural ocean materials.

 

[zachtos]

Sweet, should be very pure coral. I lost my entire reef recently and am planning to start again. Just trying to make lemonade from lemons.

Think I can run the calcium reactor ph at the same level as most other medias? 6.8 or so?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Trial and error will give you a good pH. The dead coral surface area likely impacts how readily it dissolves, and I'm not sure how it compares to what you have been using, but the ballpark pH should be similar.