Driftwood treatment ?

[Freshman]

Hi,

what other methods to sink a driftwood beside pouring hotwater?

n how to stop it from leaking tannic acid? (will pH be seriously lowered by it?)

Pls advise.

[richietay]

Freshman, you may refer to this thread http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ight=driftwood.
Give it some time, as usual do water change for your tank.

[Freshman]

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thanks bro..

i guess only can wait liao...

[grey_fox]

Hi,

what other methods to sink a driftwood beside pouring hotwater?

n how to stop it from leaking tannic acid? (will pH be seriously lowered by it?)

Pls advise.

Tannis being leached by the driftwood is a good thing for the fish. Not only is it good, it ends up creating a more natural environment for your fish and besides, its an anti-oxidant if I am not wrong.

Give your driftwood time to sink, it's not an over night thing.

[Freshman]

yup..
it definitely looks a little more natural.. hehe..
lucky mine doesn't leak too much.. just slight brownish

now got to settle the floating problem..

Cheers

[Ssur]

Hi,

Soaking the DW varies, i soaked an old piece of DW for 2 weeks, and it turned whitish blue, and up to now after leaving it to dry it still has that weird coating.

Not too sure what to do with it.

[richietay]

Probably your driftwood been unused for a period of time, hence caught with bacteria or some fungal pores. Try brushing the surface and have it boiled. have it soak in water, repeat process if required. suppose not easy to be treated, else suggest not to use the driftwood.

[luenny]

I had a driftwood with this whitish blue problem before. I just put in a couple of Malayan shrimps and they clear it overnight.

[Freshman]

help..

anymore methods to sink a driftwood?

mine still float ard after almost a month..

soak n boil liao...still no result.

[Nicky]

Buy those big fishing weights (3-4 inches long, as fat as your thumb, donno what is the number/weight/code) to weigh the wood down.

You can do so by tying a length of about 1ft of monofilament line between 2 big weights. While positioning your wood in your tank (when the water level is really low), push one weight into the substrate. Then holding the other weight, 'coil' the wood with the monofilament. When you have no more line left to coil, sink the 2nd weight into the substrate.

What you have done is like pinning a tent down to the ground when you go camping. Except you are trying to pin a wood down.

If it is new bogwood, leave the weight in the tank for 3 months or more. Then either cut the line and retrieve the weight or if u want, uncoil the line.

I learnt this from yappeyap.

What to do with the big fishing weight after your wood sink? PM me and I'll give you my address. You can send them to me by post.

[richietay]

get some weight to weigh down the driftwood and continue to soak, mine sinked about 2 weeks. by the way, what's the size of your wood?

til now, still having the problem of tannis leaking?

[Freshman]

hi,

thanks all for the reply!

my driftwood quite small...ard 9"

no longer leaking the tannic acid

have tied it to my powerhead.. aka submerged fully in water now

hopefully will sink asap..

Cheers

[kemp]

hey! that's quite a pretty good idea to weigh down your wood with powerhead!

[blim]

I bought a 24" driftwood for my altum fish tank. What shall I do to treat the driftwood so that it is safe to use? There are dark/black stains and I gave it a thorough brushing and scraped them off. Am I doing the right thing? Will driftwood causes a PH crash and do I need to do regular water change to maintain the PH?