Quote Originally Posted by jimsflies View Post
The process is electrolysis which causes calcium carbonate to precipitate out of solution. Corals opportunistically use the abundance of calcium carbonate to grow before it is simply deposited on the steel rods.

Here is a wikipedia article with a little more info:
Biorock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[COLOR="Silver"]

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Ahhh thank you. I knew it was something like that.