Bogwood or Driftwood??

**daveteogh** · 27th Jul 2007, 13:09

Bogwood or Driftwood is better for planted aquarium?

What are their advantages and disadvantages?

**Shadow** · 27th Jul 2007, 23:45

Both are the same, depending on what scape you want to create.

**bossteck** · 27th Jul 2007, 23:51

In my limited experience, bog wood stinks during the long soaking process, but the outcome is great.

Driftwood will get soft over time, bog wood seemed to be able to last longer.

**daveteogh** · 28th Jul 2007, 07:22

Thanks for your comments!

I agree that Driftwood will get soft after soaking in water for some time. I do have some DW in my current tank. The coners might just chip off when I accidently hit it. I have not tried Bog wood before but from the structure of it... it certainly looks much more stronger then DW.

I am trying to rescape my tank and thinking of getting bog wood which I think has a lighter tone color. This makes a perfect contrast in the tank between the bog wood and plants

**Shadow** · 28th Jul 2007, 10:36

Actually it depend, I got bog wood which also turn soft after a week in the water. Especially those thin branch sections. On the other hand, I also have driftwood which stay solid even after soak for a year.

This driftwood is very solid, it broke my electric saw when I try to cut it. It took me an hour to manually cut it. But again it maybe because my electric saw was design to cut plywood not solid wood.

Anyway in my opinion, just focus on your scape and select the appropriate wood.

**daveteogh** · 28th Jul 2007, 10:42

Originally Posted by Shadow

Actually it depend, I got bog wood which also turn soft after a week in the water. Especially those thin branch sections. On the other hand, I also have driftwood which stay solid even after soak for a year.

This driftwood is very solid, it broke my electric saw when I try to cut it. It took me an hour to manually cut it. But again it maybe because my electric saw was design to cut plywood not solid wood.

Anyway in my opinion, just focus on your scape and select the appropriate wood.

Yeah!

Thanks for sharing this piece of information. This is certainly useful to me. I think I will get bog wood with nice branches as I will be like to tie mosses and nana on it as part of my rescape plan. Furthermore, I already have DW in my current tank and I will like to add in something lighter in color compare to the DW.

I shall go for some 'wood' shopping later today

**steep70** · 28th Jul 2007, 11:19

but bog wood soak 3 weeks liao still got slime.. made the mistake of putting in too soon inside my tank

so who ever wanna use bogwood better prepare in advance

**daveteogh** · 28th Jul 2007, 11:23

Originally Posted by steep70

but bog wood soak 3 weeks liao still got slime.. made the mistake of putting in too soon inside my tank

so who ever wanna use bogwood better prepare in advance

Wow

Got slime? So serious?

How do you know it? Your tank water turn brown?

**steep70** · 28th Jul 2007, 11:25

Originally Posted by daveteogh

Wow

Got slime? So serious?

How do you know it? Your tank water turn brown?

can see the slime at those cut-off section.. YES SLIME!

mine almost stopping liao after 3 weeks

**daveteogh** · 28th Jul 2007, 11:27

Originally Posted by steep70

can see the slime at those cut-off section.. YES SLIME!

mine almost stopping liao after 3 weeks

Interesting...

Does it affect the health of your fishes??

I guess it should be fine if your fishes survive!

**steep70** · 28th Jul 2007, 11:29

Originally Posted by daveteogh

Interesting...

Does it affect the health of your fishes??

I guess it should be fine if your fishes survive!

my fish ok lor...but got to scoop it out every other day..see liao eyesore

best if pre soak it lor before putting in..i will if i set up next time.
ok have a great weekend..me go C328 then thompson liao

**Shadow** · 28th Jul 2007, 11:45

By the way, you probably don't want to mix bogdoow and driftwood in the same scape. In my opinion it will look funny but once again it may because I do not have good sense of art

**Shadow** · 28th Jul 2007, 11:49

Originally Posted by steep70

but bog wood soak 3 weeks liao still got slime.. made the mistake of putting in too soon inside my tank

so who ever wanna use bogwood better prepare in advance

did you soak it with hot water or at least spray it with hot water. Never happen to mee before. I always soak with hot water as well as H2O2. I'm a bit paranoid on this snail and worm thing.

**daveteogh** · 28th Jul 2007, 12:11

Originally Posted by Shadow

By the way, you probably don't want to mix bogdoow and driftwood in the same scape. In my opinion it will look funny but once again it may because I do not have good sense of art

Thanks for your comment...

I have to agree with you somehow when I think about it... but still I really like the color and shape of bog wood and I am going to try it out... hope I can have some art sense to craft out something nice

**Shadow** · 28th Jul 2007, 15:47

dont forget to post picture of the result

**daveteogh** · 28th Jul 2007, 20:59

Went around different places today from Pasir Ris farms > Yishun > NA > Seaview to shop for a suitable bog wood

Yeah!

I found one I feel is nice with branches (for me to tie mosses and mini nana) and small enough for my 1.5 feeter

At least I didn't waste my trips travelling around and found nothing

My bog wood is floating... I am soaking it in water now and hopefully I can start my rescaping next weekend.

**oblivion** · 29th Jul 2007, 03:37

Originally Posted by daveteogh

My bog wood is floating... I am soaking it in water now and hopefully I can start my rescaping next weekend.

based on your pics, if i did not mis-recognise the type of bogwood i think it is. soaking alone won't sink it
does it come with some tag in korean wording?

if it is, make sure you weigh it down with a heavy rock or something
and boil the thing, or at least boil water to pour into the pail and soak it if its too big to boil
the thing will leach tannin, previously i had to soak it in boiling water daily for 2 weeks before i got rid of (almost) all the tannin

and scrub the thing cause after boiling a few times it will release some kind of slime

**daveteogh** · 29th Jul 2007, 07:36

Originally Posted by lee1224

based on your pics, if i did not mis-recognise the type of bogwood i think it is. soaking alone won't sink it
does it come with some tag in korean wording?

if it is, make sure you weigh it down with a heavy rock or something
and boil the thing, or at least boil water to pour into the pail and soak it if its too big to boil
the thing will leach tannin, previously i had to soak it in boiling water daily for 2 weeks before i got rid of (almost) all the tannin

and scrub the thing cause after boiling a few times it will release some kind of slime

Thanks for your valuable input

This bog wood does come with a tag with an alien language to me... I assume it is Korean

Boiling it will be really tough unless I want to get nag at

I guess I will have to go with soaking it with boiling water to get rid of the slime. I shall monitor the condition of this bog wood and it looks like my rescape plan will have to be at least 2 weeks later.

**daveteogh** · 29th Jul 2007, 08:57

Yeah a question... does boiling it 'ripe' the wood and make it more darker in color as compare to one that is purely soaked??

**bossteck** · 29th Jul 2007, 09:08

Hi,

Good to know you found the perfect piece for yourself.

Boiling does not change the color, and the folks are right about the release of slime, and just to add, it stinks, so be mentally prepared.

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