okay so I found some nice pieces of maple in my back yard. I boiled them in water for an hour. I've been trying to get them to become water logged for the past 3 weeks now. I have them in one of those big rubbermaid containers with bricks on top to keep them submerged. I change the water at least once a day. For the first week I kept the water heavily salted. The pieces of maple are still not water logged. Does anybody have any advice?
Getting Maple Driftwood to sink?
- Thread starter jah29
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some wood takes forever to sink. manzanita usually will sink after a few weeks. I have some cypress that soaked for two months and would still float. I screwed the pieces on some acrylic and covered it with sand.
You could try fastening the wood to stones, bricks or other heavy sinking materials using high quality long black cable ties. You can cover up the cable ties and sinking materials with decorations, plants, gravel or sand so you don't see them when looking at the tank.
After about a year in the aquarium you can cut off the old cable ties to see if the wood is waterlogged. If it is still not yet waterlogged just replace the old cable ties with new ones.
If you don't know what cable ties are, they are also called names such as zip tie, zap strap, zip strip, mouse belt, tie wrap, quick draw, rat belt etc...
After about a year in the aquarium you can cut off the old cable ties to see if the wood is waterlogged. If it is still not yet waterlogged just replace the old cable ties with new ones.
If you don't know what cable ties are, they are also called names such as zip tie, zap strap, zip strip, mouse belt, tie wrap, quick draw, rat belt etc...
Oh god, do not put a cinder block in your tank! The chemicals alone will ruin everything!
Side note; Thats a killer piece of drift wood!!!
Side note; Thats a killer piece of drift wood!!!