dead coral?

[XX Mikey XX]

i understand the whole "it will affect your PH and what not", but what if it is several years old?

ive had little dead coral pieces since i was about 7 or 8 years old and im 23 now. and i wanna know if this will make any significant difference in my FW aquarium?

 

[Crepe]

It will always leach minerals, it's limestone down to its cold dead heart.No, if the aquarium is sufficiently large a few chunks of coral won't really cause any weirdness with your ph.

 

[XX Mikey XX]

well i was only gonna use 2 of the "bigger" pieces on each side of my tank (which is 10g)

and all thats really in the tank is 2 goldfish that will probably never die and a pleco that is pretty useless....

im also wondering if these coral pieces would be bad when i start a planted tank?

 

[Crepe]

Shouldn't hurt to have them, but it won't hurt to take them out either. It's up to you.

 

[mellawson]

Are you going to move the fish? I'm assuming the fish are still small if you have 2 goldfish and a pleco in a 10 gal. They will out grow it pretty quickly what kind of pleco do you have?

 

[XX Mikey XX]

ehh the goldfish and pleco are expendable...and i really dont want them anymore..so they will be going to a friend with a 100+ gallon tank
im working on getting a 20 gallon to do a planted setup and some simple, visually eye catching fish
i dont really know, i guess its a basic pleco?

i know for a fact that neither of the 3 fish will be staying in there long

btw, both "shubunkin" goldfish are only 1.5 inch long
and the pleco is almost 2 inches long