Haven't Treated Drift Wood

[Tawfiquei]

It has been over ten years since I last had an aquarium, being excited about getting back to fish keeping I bought everything abd started working on the 200l tank.

I spent over 8 solid hours yesterday getting substrates and plants ready, I then put in the drift wood only to notice it floats and tied stones around it to make it sink. today I panicked and called the pet shop where I purchased the drift wood only to be told it has to be treated first, I haven't unfortunately

Is there any way I can fix the brown coloured water in my planted and set aquarium? Any help would highly be appreciated

 

[Wildbetta]

Did the shop tell you WHY it had to be treated?  

The brown colored water is not harmful at all and most fish actually like/benefit from the tannins leaching from the wood.  Removing the wood and boiling it will help with the tannins but most wood will leach for a long time.  To remove it from your tank, you will just have to do large water changes or there are a couple of products that can be added to the filter to pull out the tannins (although I don't offhand know what they are).

 

[LyraGuppi]

Do you know what kind of wood it is? Many types of driftwood will float until they become waterlogged, but you can speed up the process by soaking the wood first or boiling it. 
The brown water is tannins, a natural "side effect" of driftwood. It isn't harmful (some fish like it, actually). Water changes and boiling the wood are the only two ways that I know of to get rid of it.
 
EDIT: Wildbetta beat me to it

 

[Byron]

As other members have noted, I think the store meant "waterlog" when they said "treated."  If you have the wood where you want it, and it is staying put with rock or whatever, I would leave it.  I've never bothered to boil wood, as this can soften it faster which can cause earlier rotting, so I would just leave it.  Soaking it in a pail or tub of water is another way to remove some of the early and strongest tannins if you prefer.  "Blackwater" is beneficial to soft water fish.

 

[cooledwhip]

Buy a plastic bucket or tub and put it in there with water for about a week and after a week is up, it will sink right to the bottom of the tank and won't release brown water, which is not bad for fish at all. Like Byron said, black water is great. I have brown/black water in my neon tetra "breeding" tank from wood and leaves.
 
I say "breeding" because I'm trying to get them to spawn but they won't get plump or anything -.-