Things To Do With "junk" Fossils

[Wrangellian]

Nice! Anyone would be proud to have such a selection in their indoor collection, and you're putting stuff like that in the garden! Must be good collecting sites in your area.

[Bev]

Northstar, another beautiful example of combining fossils and plants. Thank You! This would also be gorgeous with inside plants if you have the room. I really like the idea of a fossil collection garden - a coral garden in your case. I have all of my recepts in one place in the garden. I don't have enough corals where I could put them out - yet.

[Beach Boy]

This is a large Dactylioceras Tenuicostatum Ammonite with a poor center so it's now a garden ornament, i am thinking of drilling the middle out, inserting a small hose and creating a water fountain,i think it will make a better water feature than a little cherub holding his !!!!!!!!!!!!

Dave

[Ridgehiker]

Beach Boy, Ha! ha! Go for it. Are there boy and girl ammonites?

I carried a 50lb ( or so ) rock out of the badlands once...it was just scooped out enough to make it a dribbling small fountain in my native cactus garden. We must all have some weird obsession.

[Bev]

This is a lemonade from lemons indoor water garden after the aquarium that I was keeping my pond fish in started leaking the day after Thanksgiving. For me, the fossils just made the whole scene come together.

Maclurites

Two Maclurites and a cephalopod in the water that the pond fairy is looking down on.

A cobalt blue wine bottle, partially weighted, held in place by a ceph, a brach hash plate, and a Cambrian rock with "popper rings" that remind me of fairy rings.

For more pics, go here:

http://www.bluffcountryfossils.com/blog/fossils-and-an-interior-water-garden/

[Bev]

Here is a post on Fairy Gardens and Small Junk Fossils:

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/42558-fairy-gardens-small-junk-fossils/

[grampa dino]

Great ideas but I don't think there is a thing like JUNK FOSSILS

[Bev]

So I have had this aquarium with a male and female Betta set up for a while now. No ill effects to the fish.

I put a partially finished prepping project in there as I don't know what the fossil in front is and it is too nice to just toss. Maclurites sp. of course, And a ceph that is too nice for the garden but not nice enough to display.

I know there is a lot of hesitation about putting fossilized rock in aquariums with water, but heck, they are just rocks.

[Wrangellian]

As long as they are surplus and you don't mind them getting wet, dirty from algae or fish $***, perhaps a little softened and etched from any possible acids, why not?!