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    Dirftwood problems!

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    juz put a driftwood and soaked overnight. But when I add water to the aquarium, it floats! I dun want to tie down the driftwood. Any way to remedy the problem?

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    Did u try boiling the block of wood???
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    Ok, will try boiling then.[]

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    Nick,

    Since you soaked it overnight, it should be water clogged.
    Can try to soak longer.
    Does the wood feel heavy for the size?
    If it feels light, then it may not be a drift wood.
    thomas liew

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    it took me 1 month to sink my mangrove root from H20

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    i have a small piece of wood... no matter how long I soaked, it juz won't sink. I'm too am puzzle.... luckily the bigger wood that I bought sinked without even soaking.
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    It's definitely a driftwood. In fact this driftwood was from my previous tank, taken out a few months back, and completely dried. No problems then. Then I put it into the new tank, it floats! Even though I soaked overnight, still floats. Dunno why? Dun tell me one of the water denser than the other water?

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    When buying driftwood, hold it in your hand to make sure that they are heavy so that they will sink in your tank. For those lighter ones, they will float. Soaking it in just 1-2 days will not make it water logged. You need to soak them underwater for weeks before they become water logged and sink naturally.

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    I think driftwood f;oats partly bcos of the density of wood and largely due to air trapped in the wood crevices. When you boil or soak in hot water, the air inside expands and escape from the wood. When it cools, water takes its place since it is still soaked in water. The overall density of the driftwood then rise. So the bottomline is that soaking in hot water helps.......I think.

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    No need liao. It finally sank after 3 days in water. Cheers, everyone![]

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    How did you manage to sink it down, juz soaking? I guess you can count yur self lucky.... others *point at Simon* only sink after 1 month.
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    i had to weighted the wood down with a big fossil wood and test it once a week.. tough luck []

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    Wah... so jialat! I guess my case was really a bit lucky. On the 3rd day, one half was floating, the other half sinking in the morning. By night, the whole driftwood was sitting nicely in the water. No need to boil also. Guess next time when buying driftwood or bogwood got to really feel the weight. Or else, waste money and time![]

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    nah, the weight of it doesnt make a diff.. density of wood is lighter.. got mine which is above 1kg.. (quite light of a mangrove wood)

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    Even if a piece of driftwood is heavy, if its filled with air spaces in it (very dry), it may not sink... So try to soak it for a long long time to sink it. If not, tie heavy objects to it to sink it, and conceal the sinkers with plants or by burying below the substrate...[:]

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    You can buy Mopani wood, instead. It's driftwood, but will naturally sink. It's darker, and I find it more attractive than your run-of-the-mill driftwood. Just run hot water over it in the beginning to kill off any nasties, and it should be enough. I'd imagine, however, that it would also darken the water more, since you're not pre-treating it like you would regular driftwood. Oh well... Some fish like this.

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    i have a stupid question...
    lots of trees fell outside my place... i think 4 or 5...
    can i just grab a nice chunk of wood.... boil it... clean it.. freeze it to kill what ever is inside....
    boil it again so it sinks...
    and maybe zap in microwave or heat in oven to really kill everything on it...

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    hiya naomi
    not busy with your kids? ^ ^

    tristan
    no
    1. you don't know if there're chemicals in the wood
    2. microwaving wood is no no

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    Hi, Yimin! One very nice thing about the Holidays is that we can pass our kids off to relatives that are visiting .

    Yes, I believe some types of wood, while their cells are still alive, could still effectively demonstrate some degree of allelopathy (making the close proximity to the wood unviable to other plants). Not a good thing in a plant tank. Even if the tree were not an allelopathic (is there such a word?) variety, it can still secrete stuff that wouldn't be good for fish or plants. Just like mushrooms, driftwood-selecting should probably be left to the somewhat-experienced. But that's just paranoid me [:0]

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