Animal Skulls in Reef

[Casket_Case]

This gator head just finished decomposing:

I’m not gonna put it in the tank I’m just curious, has anyone ever put an actual animal skull in a reef tank?
It’s mostly calcium but there’s also things like collagen and inorganic salts in the bone, I’m not sure how the things other than calcium would affect a reef but it’d be lit to have legit bones grown over in coral. Anyone ever tried it?

 

[Cell]

Hopefully it didn't come in contact with any chemicals/pesticides etc...I'd probably give it a bleach soak to clean up any organics and detritus too.

 

[Casket_Case]

Hopefully it didn't come in contact with any chemicals/pesticides etc...I'd probably give it a bleach soak to clean up any organics and detritus too.

Definitely no pesticides there was tons of decomposers when I dug it up during decomposition it was crazy the variation in bug life that was living within the decaying tissues

 

[BeltedCoyote]

If it could be done safely that’d be an insane thing for some good encrusters to cover….

 

[Casket_Case]

If it could be done safely that’d be an insane thing for some good encrusters to cover….

Especially if it was all separated from the mandible and settled over some rock, some large branching and encrusting corals on the top, shrooms and palys growing around the teeth

 

[Reefer Reboot]

Well, I tried it with a sea lion skull. It ended up dissolving. ;Meh

 

[Alexopora]

If it could be done safely that’d be an insane thing for some good encrusters to cover….

Time to let the cyphastreas go wild

 

[Tamberav]

I think it would get eaten away by bacteria and such. Perhaps dip it in resin.