how much is this dead coral worth?

[ponda]

Hello, i went to a local store today and they had a giant dead coral that looked like this. but the size of a basketball almost

how much would you value it @?

 

[cloak]

$35 maybe?

 

[ca1ore]

Value is in the eye of the beholder. I'd not take up tank space so it's worth nothing to me. OK, maybe chisel it up into a few manageable chunks of dry rock - so $1/ pound.

 

[Sk8r]

don't put it in your tank. It will algify, produce a crop of green streaming algae, then go brown, after which the ph will start dissolving it. If you want it in a more useful form, just get a bag of aragonite sand---but wash it extremely.

 

[Flippers4pups]

+1, don't place this in your tank. It will lead to nothing beneficial for you. These are meant to be decorations for your house, not your tank.

 

[shesacharmer]

Dead coral used to be all the rage in tank's of the '70's but you had to have them nice and white so bleaching them often was recommended...pretty much discouraged in todays world.

 

[swhobbie1]

don't put it in your tank. It will algify, produce a crop of green streaming algae, then go brown, after which the ph will start dissolving it. If you want it in a more useful form, just get a bag of aragonite sand---but wash it extremely.

+1 I don't know about the PH etc but a TON of GHA will start growing on it. Years ago they sold this and in diff colors - I have a bunch. Put one large nice branch in my reef in the past and it promptly grew a ton of GHA.

 

[albano]

I have seen some of these coral skeletons that size for a a couple hundred dollars. Not for a reef tank. Just a shelf decoration.

+1... They are still very expensive

 

[lazy_reefer]

I have seen some of these coral skeletons that size for a a couple hundred dollars. Not for a reef tank. Just a shelf decoration.

Seriously? coral skeletons can sell for that much money?Should have sold mine instead of throwing them away :sad2:

 

[hart24601]

Properly cured I have seen some sweet coral skeletons that have been covered in zoas or encrusting stony corals. My friend had a gigantic coral skeleton as the only rock in his 29 cube and grafted it with ultra zoas. Made for a stunning display.