Figured out the cause of my fin rot...driftwood

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I have a couple pieces of driftwood and the bigger one(2'x1') stinks pretty bad when I take it out, both pieces have a lot of algae on them and there aren't any fin rot issues. But you are probably on the right track by at least pressure washing it and letting the sun cook it for a few months. May not be the cause but definitely couldn't hurt.


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I had sap come out of a piece of mopani i had in a tank, and it caused one of my fish to get cloudy eyes and a loss of appetite. I took it out, a couple days later it went away and instantly came back when i reintroduced it.
 
Swarsh said:
Seems to me you are mistaking fun rot with aggression and nipping from
Other fish ? If only silver fish and smaller fish are getting 'fin rot' then maybe observe your tank a bit, aro seems to like attacking shiny silver fish in my experience.


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That's what I thought initially but that's not it. Nipping would leave tears and the nipper wouldn't have be affected. But all the fish are affected so it's not from nipping.
 
sashimimaster said:
No, there's not much stuff trapped in there. They pretty much scarf down everything I throw in there. And if there is lots of food trapped my ammonia and nitrites would be huge.

But I do notice that when I handle the DW it falls apart. It's like the outer bark is decaying and soft like cork.
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i'd get rid of it. i had a similar problem with a piece of driftwood i got. it started falling apart, smelled like sewage also. i lost a bunch of german rams, clown loaches, tetras, barbs, angelfish and even a sailfin pleco within the course of 2 months of adding that piece. i had a strict water change schedule and it was a bare bottom tank.

although i'd washed it and baked it 4 different times, it did not cure it. as soon as i removed it and did a water change, fish stopped dying.
 
hereticlosmorte said:
i'd get rid of it. i had a similar problem with a piece of driftwood i got. it started falling apart, smelled like sewage also. i lost a bunch of german rams, clown loaches, tetras, barbs, angelfish and even a sailfin pleco within the course of 2 months of adding that piece. i had a strict water change schedule and it was a bare bottom tank.

although i'd washed it and baked it 4 different times, it did not cure it. as soon as i removed it and did a water change, fish stopped dying.
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Yup, it's out of the tank. Too bad I had to pay money for it....
 
sashimimaster said:
No, there's not much stuff trapped in there. They pretty much scarf down everything I throw in there. And if there is lots of food trapped my ammonia and nitrites would be huge.

But I do notice that when I handle the DW it falls apart. It's like the outer bark is decaying and soft like cork.
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IT SHOULD NOT HAVE BARK! ITS BAD FOR WATER

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