planting SPS on top of dead sps skeleton

[SeeFu]

Has anyone tried planting live SPS on top of dead SPS skeleton. This way if the SPS wants to just encrust it's encrusting on branch structure already. I was thinking about taking my blue stylo since its gotten way to big and just cutting off chunks of it and doing this.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Has anyone tried planting live SPS on top of dead SPS skeleton. This way if the SPS wants to just encrust it's encrusting on branch structure already. I was thinking about taking my blue stylo since its gotten way to big and just cutting off chunks of it and doing this.

May or may not work but worth a shot

 

[Spare time]

That is basically the same as placing coral on top of ocean rock

 

[njreefkeeper]

That is basically the same as placing coral on top of ocean rock

Yep. It works. That’s basically how reefs are made.

 

[SeeFu]

difference here is you get a branch instead of encrusting on rock.

 

[brendans_life]

Has anyone tried planting live SPS on top of dead SPS skeleton. This way if the SPS wants to just encrust it's encrusting on branch structure already. I was thinking about taking my blue stylo since its gotten way to big and just cutting off chunks of it and doing this.

There is a old reefbuilders vid where a guy did that to live colonies of acros and just put some putty to give the frag time to grow. With dead coral it should work fine.