Cheap or Free Driftwood
- Thread starter JustinC
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Free driftwood is in your local woods go and get some lol. Try to find Oak wood preferably the core of a branch as this takes alot less time to clean and sterilize, but takes a while to get water logged so. To sterilize boil water and dump it on it like 20 times in a bath tub for soaking, scrub with 1:10 ratio os bleach water solution, put it in the oven at a little over 140 degrees as this is the point in which most bacteria and fungi die and you won't burn your wood, pressure wash it to get debri and crap off. You should be fine as long as the wood isn't live or contains sap.
Driftwood is not fire wood... Pack a lunch and a map (DW / DGF optional) and go looking for local rivers and lakes, if you can find a canoe rental even better, you'll have a good time and the driftwood will mean more to you (it will have it's own story).
Hardwoods are the first choice, pine etc. decay faster.
Dr Joe
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Hardwoods are the first choice, pine etc. decay faster.
Dr Joe
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i just went to the local river and where the water had gone down i found a couple nice pieces of driftwood. picked them up came home cleaned, water logged and all that good stuff and now they are in my tanks