Drift wood from reptile tank?

[TRD_Power]

I have a great piece of driftwood from my Bearded Dragon's cage and was wondering whether or not I could use it in my aquarium. The wood was in my dragon's tank for about 7 years and has had poop, pee, skin, etc. on it, but it has been out of there for about a year now. Just wondering if there's any way to clean this well enough to use in my Yellow tail cuda's tank. This piece of driftwood is WAY too big to put in any type of pot, so boiling won't work :/ Any suggestions? Ditch the idea? All input is appreciated!

 

[Mac.]

I am curios too, I have always heard you can't use it after its been in a reptile tank but I feel that it might be false info. I've also heard you can put it in the over @ 250 degrees for about 30 minutes to sterilize bigger stuff, including wood.

 

[Nyghtfire]

ummm first of all, i'd boil the hell out of it
clean it under running water with a stiff scrubber that has not been used with chemicals.
but i don't know whether it can be
But 2 steps i would most definetly take if i was even going to give it a go.

 

[Richie_ELP]

I read somewhere that some reptile woods can have chemicals that are toxic to fish. Whether that is true or not, I do not know.

 

[Cecropia]

I threw my big pieces (a cut up root ball from a 30ft tree) in the tub for a few days with 2 cups of salt and HOT water. My tub water can send a person to the hospital it's so hot lol

Gave it a scrub and soak in salty free water and it's been fine. This is assuming that it's not cedar, etc. since it was in a herp setup....which my root ball was cedar...but that's another subject entirely.

 

[theunytedone]

i'd pressure wash it first maybe, get all of the un-solid surface gunk..then proceed with the heat treatment as aforementioned.