Pezalfonso
Aquarium Advice Newbie
- Joined
- May 23, 2016
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- 6
I've started to build my 55 gal dirted tank. But I want to use as much from nature as possible. I'm using the miracle grow organic soil and will cap with sand. Is that play box sand that one can buy at Walmart fine to use? My main question is how to prep/ clean and cure wood that I have sourced from mother nature. The spider wood and other aquarium ready wood and roots at the LFS are ridiculous in price. So, I found my own old roots systems and some drift wood from a river basin. I've seen folks boiling the wood for 2 hours but mine are too long to fit in the pot lol and I don't want to spend 8 hours boiling a few sections at a time in total. Is there another way to kill off the bacteria to cure naturally found wood? What about baking it in the oven? Or bleaching it in water and bleach solution as one does with LR to kill it off. Thanks