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[Michael the fish fanatic]

Hey guys I found an amazing pice of wood yesterday it was in the water and I wanted to know is eucalyptus wood ( appears to be a root) safe for my tank and what are ways I can get rid of any diseases off it and also made it aquarium safe.

[Furnix]

well to kill anything living on it i would leave in it the sun until its completely dried out that way nothing will still be alive on it. As for chemicals i have no idea...

[Just Drive]

I've used eucalyptus wood before never had any problems with it, hydrogen peroxide or chlorine should be able to disinfect it......or you could just dry it out in the sun.

[Michael the fish fanatic]

I also wanted to know will it lower the ph I'm my tank like drift wood

[TheTexasCichlidMasacre]

where did you find it?

[Michael the fish fanatic]

In swan valley

[jjm66smokey]

Buckets of boiling water (ideally pouring the boiling water over it), to kill out anything living in it.

Then leave it drying in the sun - after which you may wish to soak it in a bucket/pond so it (still) sinks.

[TheTexasCichlidMasacre]

i was doing that with all that wood i collected haha

[Michael the fish fanatic]

I also wanted to know will it lower the ph I'm my tank like drift wood

[TheTexasCichlidMasacre]

its driftwood you have even if it is a root..?

[Michael the fish fanatic]

So will it lower the ph

[dank]

As far as I know all wood will lower the ph to an extent correlating with the amount of tannin it releases into the water. Don't trust it to lower the ph by much - generally the lowering is pretty negligible, not to mention that the ph will go back up with water changes and that the wood will eventually stop leeching tannins.

[Michael the fish fanatic]

Also is it safe for a pleco to be chewing on the eucalyptus wood I found

[MrLeifBeaver]

Where is the photo of this amazing peice of wood?

I would love to bask in its incredible woody-ness...

Edited by MrLeifBeaver, 14 November 2013 - 08:49 AM.

[Michael the fish fanatic]

Here's some pics

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[jjm66smokey]

Nice.

Big bucket or plastic container.

Plenty of boiling water

Then leave it in soak.

Then should be good to go.

[dank]

That is a nice piece, be sure to put some pics up when it's in the tank

[Michael the fish fanatic]

I will but it will only be next year around march- April as I'm redoing my whole tank and going planted and dirted. Can't wait!!!

[dori]

man that is some sick wood

[Michael the fish fanatic]

it is pretty sweet, another cool thing about it is that it has all these cool little spaces where i can put java fern or anubias in