Best way to clean drift wood

[Cilantro]

Bought some driftwood and not sure how to clean it

 

[Roundtree]

Have you leached the wood?

Edit: Is it brand new and you need to leach it? Or are does it have a white cloudy algea? If it's the latter, I just use a tooth brush and scrub it off.

 

[Cilantro]

It's new and how do you leach it

 

[Roundtree]

Do you know what kind of wood it is? I have leached mopani driftwood. What I did with mine is I soaked it in a big trash can. I bought a Seachem Purigen filter pad dropped it in the bottom of the trash can. I soaked it in warm dechlorinated water, changing the water everyday. I did that for almost 2 weeks if not longer. But I had several big pieces. I stopped when the water was a faint tea color.


...I'm sure someone else might be able to give more advice.

 

[Cilantro]

I'm not sure but it's a small piece that I bought from pet club

 

[Roundtree]

Snap a picture. Still presoaking it and scrubbing it in warm water would be a good idea!

 

[Cilantro]

Il get a picture up later and I left out in hot water last night but the water was still clear this morning

 

[Roundtree]

Cool, You might have a different type of wood. You might want to keep it in there and scrub it down, just to make sure you get anything in you tank that is unwanted.

 

[Cilantro]

Here is a pic it's wet though

 

[Cilantro]

Didnt attach last post

 

[Roundtree]

It doesn't look like mopani wood and unfortunately I don't have any experience with any other kind of wood. It still might be in your nest interest to wash it off with warm water. You just want to make sure nothing gets into your tank.

 

[tarpon]

If it was in a tank at the store just match the temp and drop it in your tank. Theres good bacteria growing on it of it was

 

[tarpon]

You can also run it in the dishwasher with no soap, or boil it to sanitize. But id only do that if it was dry at the store

 

[tiger terror]

The smaller pieces I bought for my tank I boiled for 20 mins&let it set for 5 more in the pot,sanitising & curing at the same time.Also mine were dry as well.