help with driftwood leaching brown color into water
Bill Schomaker
>I recently picked up a piece of driftwood from the lfs.
>I took it home and cleaned it in some declorinated water.
>Then I put it in my tank and after a week or so it started
>to leach the brown color into the water.
>I am wondering if there is anything I could do to stop this
>from happening. Perhaps soak it in a bleach solution?
>Thanks for any help.
>Al
There is a couple of ways you can do this. You can just let it sit in
a pot of HOT water for a few hours and that will leach out quit a bit. You can
also boil it in a pot of water and lemon juice. How much lemon
juice is up to you.
Al
Gary Hilton
Al wrote:
Activated carbon willl do the trick as will your regular water
changes :)
CGK
Boiling the wood will draw out some of the color. Potasium
permanganate will bleach the water in the aquarium. Use as
recommended for disease, and add more when the purple color fades.
I would not use chlorine bleach, as it might carry over into the
aquarium.
Charles
Steve Parry
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 05:28:48 GMT, nas...@centuryinter.net (Al) wrote:
>I recently picked up a piece of driftwood from the lfs.
>I took it home and cleaned it in some declorinated water.
>Then I put it in my tank and after a week or so it started
>to leach the brown color into the water.
>
>I am wondering if there is anything I could do to stop this
>from happening. Perhaps soak it in a bleach solution?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>Al
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PJHagen
>Subject: Re: help with driftwood leaching brown color into water
>From: sp...@banspamintlog.demon.co.uk (Steve Parry)
>Date: Wed, Feb 4, 1998 03:25 EST
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I'm going to get me some driftwood. I love that color!
try peat sometime - does it too!
Peter Hagen
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Eric
Gary Hilton <qq...@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> I recently picked up a piece of driftwood from the lfs.
> I took it home and cleaned it in some declorinated water.
> Then I put it in my tank and after a week or so it started
> to leach the brown color into the water.
>
> I am wondering if there is anything I could do to stop this
> from happening. Perhaps soak it in a bleach solution?
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Al
Whatever you do, do NOT use bleach. Chlorine is totally horrible, and
wood is porous enough that you may not get all of the tanic acid out.
Besides, I am not sure it will work.
I am at this moment boiling two pieces of wood in a large pot on my
stove. They've been boling for about 20 minutes. They are so long
that I have to turn them up-side down halfway inbetween.
The fish people at the pet store recommended that I do this about
10-15 times. Another of their recommendations is to put it in a
bucket of water outside for about three weeks. I plan to do both,
because the type of wood I have contains a great amount of tanic acid.
Good luck!
Rev Jim
In my experience with wood as with everything else, it is almost impossible
to wait long enough. When I have wood I leave it outdoors in a plastic
container where it can get rainwater roof runoff. After a summer of this
comes the scrubbing with the brush and the boiling if small enough, No
bleach, salt, nothin, nohow.