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DIY driftwood takes time, but it will conserve you tons of money. Some tiny pieces price effectively more than $20. Also, the soak strategy (minus salt) will operate for retailer bought driftwood. Shop bought driftwood is cleaned and has not been soaked. This may lead to tannins getting leaked into your tank

What youll require:

Driftwood, which can be discovered anyplace. It does not necessarily have to come from the water. You could locate it in the woods, as lengthy as it is weathered down and looks unique. Also make positive the wood is not rotting.

Large soaking container, I use a 15 gal rubber maid container.

Aquarium Salt, I use Doc Wellfish brand. This is utilised as a organic way of killing bacteria and parasites.

Initial step, clean off your wood! Make confident all debris and bark are removed from the wood (or itll fall off in your tank!). As soon as total, boil the water in the Massive pot and add aquarium salt. I use about a tablespoon per gallon. Boil the complete piece for about 2-four hours dependent on your size. If you can only fit half the wood in the pot then you will require to boil the other half.

When the boil is complete you can transfer your wood into the rubber maid container. Add water till the whole piece of wood is beneath water (you can also add salt if you want). If the wood does not sink location one thing on leading of it till it does. Itll sink following a week or two. Youll discover the water turn into tea-ish color. It is the result of the tannins that are released into the water. If you didnt soak the wood, the water in your tank would be this color. Tannins are organic and some fishes in fact like it since itll make them really feel a lot more at house. Itll also have an effect on your PH, Im not confident about GH or KH. Youll need to have to do water adjustments every single other day to clean the water. This could take weeks or months.

When the color of the soak water suffices, you will require to soak your wood for one more week without having any salt. This will make certain that the wood does not hold any salt that may leak into your tank.

Once soaking is total wash the wood nicely and transfers the wood into your tank. Do not maintain the wood out of water for a lengthy time or it will float.

For much more info and pictures about this project, please go to www.CarolinaFishTalk.com and check the DIY section.

Report written by krayzievanh@yahoo.com, member of CFT Neighborhood

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