My driftwood is here!!!!

[Meredith]

I have no idea how my wood arrived in one piece, the box looked SO smashed!! But its here and its great!! I boiled it and rinsed it in some used tank water. It really adds a different look to the tank. Here are some pictures, you can see in the front of the tank is a "small bit" that I ordered as well.

[urville]

thats awesome. you know after your post about local driftwood i went out and collected several pieces of interest and brought them home. they were grey to start. i picked one favorite and kept the others handy. this was sunday. i poured boiling water over it in my [acronym:52bdbc98fd="Home Depot"]HD[/acronym:52bdbc98fd] 5 [acronym:52bdbc98fd="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:52bdbc98fd] bucket and let it soak. the next evening tonight, i pured out the water and noticed that the tannins from this piece were almost yellow/green rather than brown. the wood is not very dense and floats easily at this point. i live in the rockies so the wood i found at least around here was dogwood or cottonwood. if i cant get it to sink i may try aggain. i live on a usda ranch and they have an aboritum of foreign trees and whatnot so i may try to find something more dense if this doesnt work, no slate pieces for me. i tell you though i say some awesome smaller stumps, i'd love a stump tank.anyway i will keep you posted since you asked and now i'm gonna try it.

i love your piece though... maybe i should just buy... hmmmm

[Meredith]

Very cool!! I am going to try and get my dad to take me with him sometime when he goes fishing. definitely keep me posted! I am interested to know if you can get that piece to sink.

[chrism]

lovely intricate piece of driftwood! Is that sand in your tank? what plant have you got in there, not the spikey grass, the other one. Looks great

[urville]

is that from floridadriftwood?

[rubysoho]

wow, nice drift wood!

urville, careful that the wood you picked up isn't cedar. The sap in it (and sap can stay in it for a LOOOOONG time) can be toxic to fish.

[Meredith]

that was from aquariumdriftwood.com. My husband and I went to this river that runs through town and I found this incredible piece of wood that I boiled and am trying to sink. How long does that usually take?

[odysseysteve]

I also bought some driftwood from aquariumdriftwood.com and the box it arrived in was pretty well smashed, but the driftwood was in pretty good shape. Their wood looks nice and sinks!