What to do with dead acros

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cdan

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Hi All,
Long story short went away for a week tank was not cared for by the person who said they would and now have a tank of dead acros. I know they can be used as media in a calcium reactor but I don't have one, would they be any good placed in the sump like some people have live rock or should I bin em?
 
...along side the skeleton of the dude who was supposed to take care of them for you. :fun2:
 
I toss them out. Too depressing to look at. Plus when guests come over they bring it up again and again and again......

Take Care :)
 
Crush them up and add to your sand or just put them in your sump. They will break down over time, so either way they are being recycled and not wasted. I personally use them in my CA reactor after I soak them in h2o2 for a week to clean them.

On the other hand, landlord is right - it might be better to get them out of sight in this situation :(
 
I haven't killed anything but frags in my current system (knock wood) but a few of the larger acro and monti colonies from my old system and a tridacna shell are displayed in a corner of the garden. The sun bleaches them nicely and I can still look at them, it has a "Caribbean feel."


The skull of the guy who was supposed to take care of them may go there, but only after I'm dead!
 
give to someone who has a calcium reactor, or you can get some sea shells and string and make a wind chime, or crush them up and use them as chicken feed (no chit), go down to the museum and tell them its a 3 million year old fossil of a sea creature so they can display it, or just bury it the earth can use some calcium right now....

Sana
 
When I had more than a little accident a few years ago........I put the largest stags in a rock/flowerbed. They looked kinda cool I thought.

the rest of them I put in a couple of large plastic storage bins....didnt look at them until I moved a while back. Buckets O death. I gave them all to a flea market guy I know who could make a little cash of them


I still have the same signature from that event to this day.

What doesnt kill you makes you stronger ;)
 
the couple of pieces from my old nano which RTNed became hitching posts for seahorses :D

I had a large acro which died, almost lost its tissue and I was gonna move it, but then I was lazy and it still looked fine so I left it,. about 3 weeks later, it came back to life (on top, so perhaps it was never dead) and now growing fine lol
 
stick them in your sump. Then when I need to mount a frag I break off a good shape piece/size. Or put encrusting corals on them to get a cool effect.
 
If they're big colonies, I would bleach em and use them as a display. If they're just frags I'd toss em out in the sump or Ca Rx.
 
+2 on letting zoas or encrusting montis colonize on them. I have seen lots of the zoathid colonies on branch rock look in LFS's. I am starting a piece of my rainbow monti growing on a large capriconis skeleton I murdered one thanksgiving (bad heater on vacation). After growing the cap from a tiny frag, I need to at least use it for something.
 
Put em in a big box for a couple of years and then take them to your LFS where they can put them in the live rock tanks and they sell like hotcakes...........true story;)

Chris
 
+1 on encrusting with a monti, im gonna take a big ol section of old acro i found on the beach and put some superman monti grafts to it. Then when people oooh and ah and ask what it is, ill just tell them it was a piece handed down to me from my grandfather and he got it from Jacques Cousteau lol
 
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