Want to "recycle" a coral skeleton (1 Viewer)

[cobraden]

I have a couple good sized cool looking coral skeletons with some rock that I bought, that I would like to re-colonize with some type of coral colony. Recycle so to speak. Any suggestions for corals that I could "seed" the skeleton with and may grow kind of like a mat and cover it (except star polyp)?

 

[Clownfish Chris]

Encrusting montipora like a sunset or pokerstar.

 

[Diesel]

All kind of encrusting corals you can use for this.
Or just chop it up and use it in your CaRX, as I'll do too.

 

[Mark L.]

I had an SPS coral die sometime back. Me being the lazy person I am, left the skeleton in the tank long enough for zoas to start growing on the branches. Now it looks cool enough that I left it.

 

[flipside]

That's an awesome idea Mark.

 

[Mark L.]

Thanks Leo.

 

[reeftopia]

Ive actually trimmed my sps back because it was coming out of the water and then recycled the dried skeleton in my calcium reactor.

 

[flipside]

That's a darn good idea too, David.