Is this aquarium safe?

[FishFanaticSyd]

I found this at Holden Beach, North Carolina. I think it is a coral but am not sure. If it is, I can clean it. Done all sorts of online searches for it and only found one pic that vaguely resembles it. Is this a coral? The only way I can figure out how to post this is using my albums in user profile. It is in 'random coral?'

 

[Ricksreef]

Need to upload picture.


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[FishFanaticSyd]

How do you load them onto posts? All I could figure out how to do was make an album on my user profile for it. There are pics there. It's ironic. I am learning computer programming in school and I can't figure out how to upload a picture. lol.

 

[54seaweed]

Well here is your pict of your coral ,

It looks like a dead barnacle cluster , the only thing about putting things in your tank you find would be the risk of bringing in parasites and even hitchhikers inside the cluster , you just don't know is it worth the risk ,

 

[Ricksreef]

Well here is your pict of your coral ,

It looks like a dead barnacle cluster , the only thing about putting things in your tank you find would be the risk of bringing in parasites and even hitchhikers inside the cluster , you just don't know is it worth the risk ,

Agree and I hate to have to say this,but anything picked up on the beach or within the water close in to land could possibly contain pollutants you wouldn't want in your tank.


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[FishFanaticSyd]

I boil things I put in my tank for at least 30 minutes. Is this amount of time boiling long enough?

 

[FishFanaticSyd]

I found it last September. Anything on there once should be dead and easily removed by boiling, right?

 

[Ricksreef]

I still wouldn't chance it,unless it was collected at least three miles offshore.The crap that gets in our coastal waters is scary.I say this after spending terrific Summer's years ago very close to Holden's beach at what was then called Howell's Point on the inter-coastal waterway.

I'm probably overly cautious ,but in a reef aquarium the ecosystem is fragile enough with the stuff we get from suppliers.
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[54seaweed]

I wouldn't suggest boiling anything salt related it can omit toxic gases , and safety is key

 

[FishFanaticSyd]

Thanks. I will not do that then.