Bovbov
Aquarium Advice Regular
My neighbour just got some purple slate looking rocke that I think will look good in my aquarium! Does anyone know how to make it fish friendly???
My neighbour just got some purple slate looking rocke that I think will look good in my aquarium! Does anyone know how to make it fish friendly???
My neighbour just got some purple slate looking rocke that I think will look good in my aquarium! Does anyone know how to make it fish friendly???
I gave it a good scrub a dub dub a quic boil for 10 mins and cooked in oven for another 10m, I used Malt vinegar to test and no reaction. Will malt be ok??
Well it hasn't raised my ph!! Got some java moss growing off it
Does slate really require that much prep? Ever since I can remember, I've just scrubbed it off/disinfected it, tested it with vinegar and tossed it in.
I guess it all depends on what your level of concern is. If I get something from a LFS, I do what you just described. But if someone gives it to me and I don't know where it came from, my concern goes up a tick. Ask the guy here that picked up some DW from a creek, did a quick whatever it was, stuck it in his tank and it promptly killed all his fish.
Where do you think wood comes from?
Considering the amount of people that put driftwood in their tanks I think it's safe to say that the chance of something tank-destroying being soaked into the wood is probably really rare. It would also be wise to harvest driftwood from known clean water areas i.e. not downstream from a chemical factory.
The wood that I purchase from a local collector is pulled from some clean area creeks and then sun baked and put into storage. I've yet to have any issues with it other than having to add weight to some pieces.
Well obviously we come from different areas. Where I used to live, grabbing a piece of waterlogged wood out of a creek would practically be a guarantee of bringing something nasty into your tank.
What do you consider a safe area? I think that expectation of 'clean' wood would/should be on anyone collecting anything that is going to make its way into a fish tank, commercial or personal. There isn't any regulation on stuff like this so I don't see how me collecting DW from a local source is any riskier than buying from my friends in retail who buy their DW from suppliers (the same basic suppliers that I get mine from) apart from it being marked up through the middle man.Commercial driftwood is another matter entirely, as there's the expectation that it was harvested from a safe area.
Grabbing a piece of wood out of a creek, not the same thing.