just bought driftwood

[reaverx]

i see in aquarium the driftwood all sink...

mine keep floating to the top anyone can advise what to do ???

[Shadow]

Weight it with rock, it will sink after few weeks
Boiling it also help.

Those DW with lots of branches usually float

[xaine]

Would be good to boil the wood for 2 purpose.
- Allow it to absorb moisture
- Leech the tannin from the wood (to reduce the brownish water you will have)

[reaverx]

Would be good to boil the wood for 2 purpose.
- Allow it to absorb moisture
- Leech the tannin from the wood (to reduce the brownish water you will have)

no wonder when i put into the water it all became brown blackish .... thanks guys .... appreicate it

Weight it with rock, it will sink after few weeks
Boiling it also help.

Those DW with lots of branches usually float

but how to boil the thing is so big and i dont have so big a pot its 2 feet long leh !

[Shadow]

Weight it with rock then for few weeks until it sink. Don't worry it will sink

[Morgan01]

It will sink eventually...sometimes it could take up to a month but it will sink. trust me

[chew028]

what i head is that the brownish color wont harm your fish. just that maybe u will felt anoyed cause u cant seem to see the fish,and try to make sure what u had is drift wood, cause there are some lfs that sell other type of wood as drift wood

[Shadow]

Just read from ADA oline aqua journal reagarding driftwood:

" It is not necessary to boil or pour hot water on Old Black Wood from the tropics to remove tannin. It should never be boiled as a matter of fact since the natural resin in the driftwood seeps out like black tar and becomes unmanageable."

Link here

[lifestory]

great find Shadow. gives a new perspective to what some of us believes in.

[luenny]

I thought when you boil to get the resin to seep out into the boiling water and then you pour the water away and the wood should be ok? Why would you want to manage resin in boiling water? Isn't that why people boil? Or am I getting the meaning of the sentences wrong?

[Shadow]

You are welcome to asked Amano

Would he mean once seep out it become unmanageable even in normal cold water?

[illumnae]

great find Shadow. gives a new perspective to what some of us believes in.

that article only applies to "branded" wood and not the normal kind of wood most of us use

[lifestory]

that article only applies to "branded" wood and not the normal kind of wood most of us use

Thanks illumnae, I stand corrected. Learnt something again

[evilone]

will it still be ok to boil the wood in water if there's plant growing on it?

[blink_willie]

You could also try tying fishing weights to the wood like what blue33 did.

[Laconic]

evilone: Bro, u boil the plant together with the wood, the plant sure die