Recycling dead corals

darkdruid

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I was wondering what everyone does with the corals that just don't make it for one reason or another. What happens to them, calcium reactor media, decorations on the shelf, use them as live rock, tossed in the trash?
I use old acro skeletons to mount frags on. A few blue clove polyps on an old acro and in a month or two, you have what looks like a fuzzy blue acro that you can't kill with a baseball bat and a blow torch. Old candy cane or multiheaded torch corals make cool zoa mounts. A different color zoa on each head looks really cool.
Post your best ideas with pics if possible?
 
I have a graveyard in my fish closet of all my SPS failures. A brain that was DOA in a shipment to me has also made a nice acan frag holder.
 
I toss most of mine into my sump.

I have a nice collection of skeletons that I picked up off the beach in cozumel though. We use them for decoration throughout the house.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15390049#post15390049 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BigJay
Three words: Wall Of Shame.

And no, I'm not posting pics of it. :)
*grins* BigJay's Wall
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If you have ever seen coral skeletons in stores and the prices they comand, maybe try ebay to sell them, at least with decent sized SPS colonies.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15421359#post15421359 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by turtleman9100
toss into sump +1

+2 - Clean well and in the sump they go.

LL
 
good places to glue frags to, as well as the sump idea, then you can use them later to help seed filtration in newer tanks you set up!
 
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