Making driftwood sink./

[batang_mcdo]

Hi,

How do you maker large driftwood sink faster?
I've had a driftwood which has been underwater for more than a year held down by heavy rocks, but once the rocks were removed the wood just floated
yesterday had a huge piece of wood, and without soakinga nd boiling it just sank

but for those that float, how do you get them to sink?

thanks.

 

[JardiniBoy]

All the driftwood I ever had flowted for about 2 weeks and then just sank by itself. I'm not sure that there's anything specific you can do to make it sink..

 

[cockroach]

you could try silicne it to a rock or two two weigh it down, did that on a tank a few years ago. if done neatly, you cant even notice it is siliconed on.

 

[HarleyK]

Howdy,

a piece that still floats after a year is either very stubborn (in which case you cannot do anything about it) or unsuitable for aquarium use (it was harvested too fresh). Can you detect a rotting smell when you take it out of the water? Did you harvest it yourself?

HarleyK

 

[batang_mcdo]

hi thanks
got it from an importer of fish accessories.
it doesn't have a rotting smell. but it's kinda light.
guess will try to find some rocks and glue it to the piece of driftwood
its quite big.

 

[CHOMPERS]

Over the summer I brought home some drift wood that I had collected from the Canadian border. One piece had been harvested and nicely chewed by a beaver. It was well weathered and I found it lying on the bottom in about two feet of water. It had been dry for about three weeks. I put it in my tank about mid August and it is still floating.

I think it has a lot to do with permiability of the saturated wood (the wet outside not allowing air inside to escape.)

 

[CHOMPERS]

Oh and I was thinking of building a contraption that would allow a vacuume to be pulled while the piece is submerged, then the vessel slowly being put under low pressure. This will draw out the inner air and replace it with water. I just fear causing the cells to collapse like a styrofoam cup sent on a deep diving ROV.

 

[CHOMPERS]

hi thanks
got it from an importer of fish accessories.
it doesn't have a rotting smell. but it's kinda light.
guess will try to find some rocks and glue it to the piece of driftwood
its quite big.

That sounds like it isn't real driftwood. The trick of the trade is to dig up the root system of a freshly cut tree, pressure wash it, then wire brush the skin off of it, dry it, and then ship it to a retailer.

Try large stainless lag bolts screwed into it in non-visible places. The bolts need to go along the bottom and just keep adding until it is no longer boyant.

 

[AquataHolic420]

I just scored some driftwood today, walked down a river by my college a week ago scoped out a sweet tree that was petrified in the son , for god knows how long, and brought a saw back with me today and harvested a nasty piece.. now i just needa sand it and cut it to size then my breeder tank will look extra sweet

And a pointer about making floater pieces sink, i just had a decoration for a tank way back when and it was a metal rod with like 50 pieces of slate with a BB sized drill hole in them to slide on the rod... i took off all the pieces stuck the rod through a spot and added the rocks back onto the rod for weight, worked perfect...for this pic

 

[batang_mcdo]

Hi,

here's a piece of driftwood i recently bought, luckily it sank once inside the tank, didn't have to soak it




the other ones a bigger wood. really huge, its in my tank right now. but italready partially sank.



but the old one still flaots. mmmmm will drilling it with holes make it sink?
will try to put some stainless screws on it

but it doesn't really have a nice shaped.