How Do I Clean It ?

[The_Eggman_1972]

I have recently found a large piece of bogwood i had lost for several months and it has a very faint/fine green skin or mould on the top how do i clean this to put back in my tank ?? just hot water and scrub with new scourer ? or can i use odour/tasteless anti back spray ?.thxs in advance.

 

[sparky_555]

If it was me, i'd put it in boiling water for an hour or so, then juyst scrub it with a new scourer

 

[mr.dark-saint]

1 cup bleach to 5 gallons of water in a bucket (and weigh it down if you have to) then forget it for a few days to a week. Usually I'll get to it. Or boil enough water to soak it in a bucket and forget it. Boiling it for an hour seems like a waste of money. Anything boiled (rolling with bubbles from boiling) for 5 minuets is enough . Everything should just hose clean if not just use a scrubbie brush for the though bits . I'd pass on the anti-odor/flavor spray.

 

[xJake]

cup bleach to 5 gallons of water in a bucket (and weigh it down if you have to) then forget it for a few days to a week.

I wouldn't suggest soaking aquarium wood in bleach for any amount of time for it will seep inside the wood and leech out over time as it is in your tank. This probably won't kill your fish but it could stress them to the point of disease.

How I treat my aquarium wood: Boil it for 10 minutes (or if it is really big let it soak in boiling water for 45-60 minutes) then change the water and repeat for half the time just to make sure you've gotten all the junk out of it. Be sure to rotate it a couple times while boiling/soaking and then let it cool off for a couple hours before adding it to your tank (just like the bleach the wood will hold in the hot water and will leech it out potentially affecting th water temp in the tank to the point where the fish are stressed out)

 

[mr.dark-saint]

I wouldn't suggest soaking aquarium wood in bleach for any amount of time for it will seep inside the wood and leech out over time as it is in your tank. This probably won't kill your fish but it could stress them to the point of disease.

Bleach or chlorine will dissapate if left alone to dry out or counteracted by stuff like NovAqua (given enough time to soak).