Do a search for Curing wood. I posted a while back the method I use to curing woods. As long as it fits in your bathtub you can cure it. Wood will dye your tank if you don't cure it. I have 100 lbs in my 135 and it has no color to the water.
Untreated drift wood ?
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You need to soak it for a month...the driftwood leaches tanin acid, and turns the water yellow. Water changes are recommended.
Second, don't get driftwood from LFS, chech out Foster/Smith website.
Second, don't get driftwood from LFS, chech out Foster/Smith website.
jschulst said:
I would recommend water changes for all tanks, regardless of if there is wood in the tank.
Technically a bog is a body of water that gets replenished ONLY by rainwater and no other source. Bog water is typically still, stagnant and acidic which is actually a good thing in the sense that the wood stays well preserved. The downside is that there will likely be more tannins to leach out of it than wood from "non-bogs".
As for curing, the first important thing is to make sure that you kill living organisms that are on or in it. This can be acheived by boiling and/or soaking repeatedly with salt. Some people use a sandblaster to strip off all the bark and loose external junk.
For some reason it was difficult to type bog water instead of bong water.
I don't know why.
As for curing, the first important thing is to make sure that you kill living organisms that are on or in it. This can be acheived by boiling and/or soaking repeatedly with salt. Some people use a sandblaster to strip off all the bark and loose external junk.
For some reason it was difficult to type bog water instead of bong water.
I don't know why.
loach43 said:
OK mister...put the keyboard down and back away from the bong water...DUH!!...I get it now!!
Hey meiling......
you were right..."Once_ a_ week" water changes, DOES mean drink the bong water....
er.... ahhh..... yeah, that's it...huh?
gota box of zingers to go with that half gallon of milk?