Driftwood from a fish store

[gale]

I got this driftwood from big al's online and it's sold for fishtanks (I'm assuming for freshwater but it really didn't specify). It has a slate thing on the bottom of it to help keep it from floating, I guess. Anyway, since it was sold as an aquarium thing can I just rinse it in really hot tap water and maybe brush it a little with a new toothbrush? I don't have a pot big enough to boil it in.

It didn't come with instructions.

 

[daza]

I had a piece of mopani driftwood that wouldn't fit properly in any container I had to boil so I put it in the sink and kept pouring boiling water from the kettle over it every now and then. It still made the water in the tank a tanned brown colour but I actually quite liked to look, but it went away completely after a few water changes anyway.

Is it definitely driftwood you have though and not the plastic lookalike stuff? I just ask because I've not seen driftwood with slate attached, I thought that it absorbed water too much to float anyway...I may be wrong.

 

[gale]

Is it definitely driftwood you have though and not the plastic lookalike stuff? I just ask because I've not seen driftwood with slate attached, I thought that it absorbed water too much to float anyway...I may be wrong.

Yep it's the real thing-here's a link to a pic of it driftwood I got. Now that I read it again I see that it does say it's for tropical tanks and that it will float for a few days. This slate weighted stuff is actually what all the stores around here sell but none had it small enough for a 10g tank.

 

[daza]

looks like a nice ornament...would also be nice with some moss or something growing on it over time.

 

[Talleyrand]

I'm too lazy to boil driftwood, I just soak it in a 5 gallon bucket of hot tap water overnight. Seems to do the trick.

 

[xXMrBonesXx]

store bought driftwood is already treated i believe so you can just pop it in the tank but im not entirely positive on that

 

[gale]

I have 2 pieces-the small one fit in my big pot so I did go ahead and boil it. The other one won't fit for sure although maybe in my roaster. Hmm...

Anyway I boiled it for about 40 min and got bored with it so I took it out and let it cool, then put it in my tank. It's not floating at all (probably due to the slate bottom) and looks pretty neat in there. My betta immediately went through one of the holes and the other fish are really eyeballing it. lol. Hopefully it won't cause any problems with my tank.

 

[Grim Reaper]

I'm too lazy to boil driftwood, I just soak it in a 5 gallon bucket of hot tap water overnight. Seems to do the trick.

same here i did the same thing when i got my bogwood droped it in a bucket and added some boiling water and coverd it and let it soak over the night next day toke the water out and replaced it with some more boiling water and left it again to soak did this 4 2 days and it was ready