Does worn-out car tires can function like a coral reef?

Answer 1

I know they use them to achieve that affect,and it sounds a good idea, but I wonder if there is any leaching of chemicals into the water?

Answer 2

they can be used to install artificial reefs in the sea. there are many kinds of reefs, some done of arenite, some of coral. the coral reefs are so called because the skeleton of dead corals serve as substrate to the settlement of more corals, and so on, and with time the coral skeletons form a structure that is like a rock. tires can be used as artificial substrate for marine sessile animals, and so act like the coral skeletons, but i think the kind of community that will form in the area depends on the kind of life that existed there. where i live, we don't have coral reefs, only arenite reefs, so the communities that were developed on the local project of artificial reefs (done by the university) was not a coral reef. we got algae, sponges, ascidians, bryozoa, hydrozoa, many kinds of sessile animals settling on the tires, and swimming animals living inside the tires too (fish, lobsters and others, that use the tires as a hiding place from predators and the sun light, and other animals that go there to search for food and eat the ones that hid there). but no corals. what is actually a good thing, because if we didn't have corals before, getting them now would mean an invasion or exotic species that would mess with the local community.

Answer 3

Not really. Once the rubber starts to decay it causes trauma among the denizens of the reef.

Answer 4

no like a rubber reif still marine life will live in them in new york the old retired sub way cars get dumped into the bay for that reason so that would be a steal reif