AUssie PEOPLE drift wood cqan we get it from our rivers ?

[ohhsweetness]

ok heres the deal does driftwood only come form America ??


if we go to a river can we pull out a branch and stick it our tank ?
if we cant
can we get a certain kind of tree stump thats in Australia to put in our tanks
??

go get some mangrove root or something ?

 

[gran charismo]

wood is wood

 

[ohhsweetness]

so you can cut a branch off a dead tree and use it ?

 

[gran charismo]

yeah ive got 2 huge pieces of tree trunk in the corners of my tank that i found in bushland

if its been in the water tho its prolly better as some of the tannins are already leached

i wouldnt put in anything thats still green like eucalyptus or pine but anything dried should be ok

 

[HarlanAshmore]

i do this is what it looks like

 

[cogs]

don't get busted getting mangroves

 

[FSM]

a lot of driftwood is from Malaysia...or at least I assume it is since its called "malaysian driftwood"

 

[arherp]

It should be fine, unless the river is polluted. The wood could have harmful chemicals absorbed into it that will leech into the water and kill the fish.

 

[Greenspot]

I do, and i reckon its better because its already waterlogged! I always worry about buying 'driftwood' (although i have in the past) that huge tracts of woodland are being cut down in africa and indonesia.

 

[ohhsweetness]

yeah i was just thinking of going to to my local river were i catch eels and bream
and see if theres any good dead tree branches at low tide
i wasnt going to go cut down a few branches from a live tree lol
but thnx for the info
so no pine or ecliptis tree branches