Does bog wood always leak?

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Can anything be done about it? Some one mentioned something about adding something to the filter, it wasn't carbon though.

I am just about ready to setup my 180g and really don't want the water to be that horrible tinge of yellow.

I do have loads of bogwood here that was in my 63g before and I will try putting each bit in a separate bucket to see if it is a particular bit that is causing trouble.

Any tips or tricks?
 
Japtastic;2510821; said:
Can anything be done about it? Some one mentioned something about adding something to the filter, it wasn't carbon though.

I am just about ready to setup my 180g and really don't want the water to be that horrible tinge of yellow.

I do have loads of bogwood here that was in my 63g before and I will try putting each bit in a separate bucket to see if it is a particular bit that is causing trouble.

Any tips or tricks?
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The yellow tinge is nasty for some to look at fish dont care they may even prefer it but I didnt.

Someone while back suggested purigen to me in this forum and it worked great
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=4190

I use it in filter in fine mesh bag . Dont renew it just discard it when think its exhausted and replace it.

Polyfilter pads work great also. http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=10421 they turn black when exhausted.

I used several things and prefer the above 2 with no preference with either both good.

Like Invisible noted boiling the wood if you can goes loooooong way as far as speeding up the leaching even placing it in pale of hot water hour or so helps a lot.

It took close to a year for the large mopani wood I use to stop leaching .
 
tannins can be leached for years. granted the concentration does get weaker. I buy wood that is less likely or is claimed not to leach tannins. i have something called mangrove root and ive never noticed any yellow of that, also mopani same as mangrove no leaching and i have tried a new type now that i have been told it doesnt leach its called red moor wood. i had trouble sinking the red moor but my rocks are taking care of that. it should sink eventually by itself though.
 
cichlid2006;2511234; said:
tannins can be leached for years. granted the concentration does get weaker. I buy wood that is less likely or is claimed not to leach tannins. i have something called mangrove root and ive never noticed any yellow of that, also mopani same as mangrove no leaching and i have tried a new type now that i have been told it doesnt leach its called red moor wood. i had trouble sinking the red moor but my rocks are taking care of that. it should sink eventually by itself though.
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My mopani wood leached for a year granted it may have been sold as mopani and just some other type of African wood
 
Mine took 5 months to quit leaching tannins in the water naturally. I did weekly water changes.

Can anything be done about it? Some one mentioned something about adding something to the filter, it wasn't carbon though.
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Organic adsorption resin will take out the tannis in the water but for a 180...that will get expensive. Maybe you could just keep the driftwood in a different tank that you wouldn't mind the yellow color in for about 5 months.
 
Louie;2511577; said:
My mopani wood leached for a year granted it may have been sold as mopani and just some other type of African wood
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you hit a problem with buying the wanted types of wood on the head there. a lot of wood is sold as bogwood when its not actually bogwood. some is sold as mopani when it aint and you get heavy tannins leaching when you were told there would be none. unless its a reputable lfs or you really know what your looking at then a lot of it is down to luck.
 
Thanks for the info guys, all of this wood has been in my old tank for over a year already, I think I may just have a rouge piece in their some where, I'll try soaking each one individually to see what happens.
 
cichlid2006;2513593; said:
you hit a problem with buying the wanted types of wood on the head there. a lot of wood is sold as bogwood when its not actually bogwood. some is sold as mopani when it aint and you get heavy tannins leaching when you were told there would be none. unless its a reputable lfs or you really know what your looking at then a lot of it is down to luck.
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Yes ,after I read your post it occured to me that any piece of wood can be called anything and sold as anything.
 
LisaH;2511601; said:
Mine took 5 months to quit leaching tannins in the water naturally. I did weekly water changes.



Organic adsorption resin will take out the tannis in the water but for a 180...that will get expensive. Maybe you could just keep the driftwood in a different tank that you wouldn't mind the yellow color in for about 5 months.
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"Organic adsorption resin will take out the tannis in the water but for a 180...that will get expensive"

So true
 
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