Home Made Crushed Coral?

[Sleepydoc]

I have a very large (~12"/30 cm diameter) colony of plain white caulastrea that I need to prune. I've given away as much as I can but at this point I'm left with pruning it and killing some of it. It makes me feel guilty but when I think about it, it's not much different from pruning a house plant.

Instead of discarding the pruned coral, can I simply make my own crushed coral? I realize there will be some organic material left over but I should be a able to deal with that just like aging dead rock.

 

[DanyL]

As much as it hurts/unethical to do so, if there’s no other way to get rid of it, I don’t see any reason why you wouldn’t be able to do so.

If it comforts you, there was a guy in Siberia (I think?) that dried out fully blown colonies of high end acros like Walt Disney because he had no one to share them with.