Drift Wood Leaching Tannins

[Zimdoc]

Hi All

In the excitement of rescaping my 125l planted tank, i purchased a lovely piece of mopani drift wood and without pre soaking it (i know...) and its now leaching tannins like a joke. the water is a dark brownie colour. I am doing daily water changes approx 50% but its looking a nightmare at the moment.

Any ideas on how long it will take to stop leaching? Usually i would take it out and leave it to soak, but ive got all my anubais attached to it...

Any help is much appreciated

 

[Tetra-Chris]

How big a piece of wood is it?

I've had wood leech tannins for days/weeks/months! It gets less with time.

Putting carbon in the filter for a week or 2 will help the process as well.

 

[ZoddyZod]

personally I'd just leave it to do it's thing and wait for it to clear naturually. It will cause no harm.

Unless you absoloutely MUST have crystal clear water?

 

[Zimdoc]

Thanks guys.

No I don't mind a little bit of colour but it's currently a bit excessive! You can barely make out the plants or anything else for that matter


Thanks tetra-chris. I think I've got a couple of carbon for my ehiem finding in the shed so will shove those in!

 

[Blubble37]

are yo sure its driftwood. i've heard of bogwood leaching that stuff but not driftwood...

 

[Zimdoc]

Ah!!! now thats an interesting question... to be honest not sure if its bog or drift wood... just went do to the LFS and purchased it...

 

[Kelly-Jo]

It could be mopani driftwood still, my piece leeched tannins like crazy the first day i soaked it.

 

[Blubble37]

oh well then