What to do with coral substrate
 

I was sitting here thinking what to do with all my coral substrate after I switch it with sand.

Has any one ever tryed bagging it up in mesh bags and use it like base rock under LR? I just thought maybe it could be tightly bound up in fine mesh sacks and piled up and then put my LR on top so you can't see the sacking. It would give all my pods and critters places to breed.

Could you maybe make some molds mix a bit of resin with it and have some realy poreous rock formations?

Any thought would be cool.

Thanks in advance

how big is it?

Tyler, awesome idea. Put it in mesh onion bags and bury it under your rock. Grat pod piles

Say 1 pound sacks, soft ball size.

no how big are the individual chunks

Steve

It's the course crushed coral substrate that you buy at a LFS

Here's a pic that you can see the size of the sustrate that I want to bag up.

http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/...e/2004_037.jpg

if you have a ton of it I will trade you some sand for it

Steve

If you have a tonne of it, it will break your tank!! :razz: hehe

Not sure how much in weight, it sits 2" to 3" in my tank. The base of my tank is 48" by 24" maybe 80lbs or so?

hmmm..... maybe.

Steve

I wont be doing the switch most likely until the end of April when we move

let me know, I will either buy some off ya or trade you for some of my left ovewr sand.

Steve

I'll drop you a line when I do the switch, are you looking at making some rock (Aragocrete)?

yup

Steve

I was thinking of making some too, started looking into making some haven't finished the research. Have you made it before?

nope

Steve