Getting Wood Submerged

[buzzfrog]

well 75 is up and cycling, my other smaller hobby is reptiles so i have a lots of wood(never used by teptiles) I am not sure of the type of wood, it is tan is all i know. SO before i de-infect it am trying to get it submerged, I have had it submerged with rocks holding down for the past 3 straight days. I go to check this moring and it pops to the top of suface. The water has been changed once and this time it hardly has a brown tint, assume the tannins comming out. Will it ever submerge or do i just need to buy some driftwod, it is just so dang high.

 

[Aquascaper]

Sounds like Mopani wood which is very dry and is the main type of wood sold for reptiles, etc.

It will sink eventually but takes a long time to become waterlogged. The other option is to anchor it to a piece of slate or similar to hold it in place. Mopani does have a lot of tannins which can be removed with the use of activated carbon in your filter as well as constant water changes.

 

[buzzfrog]

thanks Scaper, been keeping me smart lately, lol the small problem is one piece looks like an elbow and i wanted to make it like a bridge thing, may be hard to do that, would post pics but gf has the camera, ok on the carbon and tannons, wont it turn my water yellow, or with the filter running will it clear it up faster, thanks.

 

[r.w.girard]

Sounds like Mopani wood which is very dry and is the main type of wood sold for reptiles, etc.

As I understand it, mopani is one of the denser wood and so it should sink immediately. As for identifying it, it usually has dark red to black veins in it. Check out the pinned article on wood-types here on the forums here. It does leech a lot of tannins, so if you want to get rid of them, I would recommend Purigen. It really works wonders.

 

[raptorrex]

I'll admit I've never seen Mopani float. well bob up to the top.
but i have known it need weighting, just initially, otherwise it moves around quite a bit.

if it floats up to the top.
i honestly cant see it being Mopani, even kiln dried.

any chance of a piccie OP?

 

[buzzfrog]

i will post a pic when my gf comes over, she has both of my cameras, strange how that happens, lol


just looked at pic of the mopani in the mentioned thread, the tan part of it look exactly like it, even the way it narls and twists, though the bottem is not black on it.

 

[buzzfrog]

the elbow piece has bogged down and i am boiling water as we speak i will snape a pic of it in a bit

 

[buzzfrog]

i looked through my dealer cards, called the guy i got it from and he said it was mangrove