TammyLiz
Fish Herder
I was visiting my mom yesterday and while my daughter was throwing stones into a creek near a beaver dam, I poked around looking for interesting wood for my tank. I found a few pieces that looked interesting and brought them back with me just in case they are usable. Thought I'd see if anyone has ever done this before. There is one piece that looks like it has been in the water forever (shaped by the water) but it hasn't rotted so I thought it might be a good candidate. But there are a couple places on it where it seems a little soft and I can pick pieces of it off. Do you think it'll rot in the tank? Is there anything I can do to it to try to harden it up? Bake it? Boil it? I would have to boil one end at a time because its too long for any of my pots. Scrub it? Pick off the parts I can and stick the rest in the tank? I have no idea how much of it I would be picking off. It could be quite a bit. And this piece had moss growing on it. There was another piece that was dry but such a strange shape...I can't tell if the shape was made by bugs or water. Or bugs in water. So how can you tell if its driftwood?