dead corals for a reef/fish tank?

[uumduu]

Hi I just bought a used 60gallon tank with bunch of accessories, including some nice large dead corals. I already have a 30g tank running w/ fish and LR.

So now I want to set up reef/fish tank in my 60g tank is there a benefit of putting dead corals along with LR? The dead corals a beautiful and I don't know if they will get populated like LR.
thanks

 

[krisfal]

Live rock is mostly made up of old coral skeletons

 

[returnofsid]

Yep, just as Kris said, dead corals are aragonite based skeleton. It'll populate just as live rock would. Some of it ight not be quite as porous as live rock but it can also become so over time.

 

[uumduu]

thanks for the reply guys

 

[preons]

ive found that if the dead coral is very branchy it becomes a big algae magnet. Seems my little crabs and snails get all confused or simply cant reach areas. It turns really green and brown and icky fast in a live rock tank. And takes a long time to get all purple, like a year or more if it does that at all. I usually just break that stuff up and use it to make zoo frags or turn it into big sand substrate where the sand is getting kicked up. Ive also put it in my calcium reactor and I have put it in my sump where I wanted algae to form.