Need Driftwood Help ASAP!!!!!!

[FishFanatic88]

Hi everyone its been awhile since i have been on here, but i need some help. I recently bought some dw from a local petco. the wood was submerged with no signs of disease on the wood or in the tank. i rinsed them off before i added them to my tank. i have had it since thursday and havent noticed any problems until now. there is a black fungus covering one peice and the other two have some patches. i have no idea what it is or if it will harm my fish, but i need solid info as my fish are very important to me. any help is appreciated. sorry that i cannot provide a picture but the quality is so bad that you cant tell.

 

[blert]

When in doubt a quick boil and scrub is in your best interest.

 

[Ziggs180]

Its probably some type of Algae. If you have algae eaters it might provide a source of food for them.

 

[marsh]

what kind of driftwood? Petco may have "reptile wood" that is not intended for aquariums, although I would hope they sell some standard type like manzanita or mopani.

My piece of wood was mopani that I ordered on Drs Foster & smith online for like $6.99, a third of the price it sells for at my lfs. It took 6-7 days of boiling in a big stock pot with constant water swapping to leach the dark tannins (mostly) out. I figure all the boiling was a good way to sterilize the wood, to some degree..

I would try boiling your wood, but only because that's the advice I heard from many people about mopani. I also was told that some "bacterial blooms" will appear and just eventually die out, I found two tiny white specks that look like lone spilled cottage cheese curds on the wood, so far they aren't growing or shrinking much in a fortnight.