Mangrove Swamp Wood For My New Brackish Tank

[kanzaris]

Hi

I have got a very big piece of Mangrove Swamp Wood for my new tank. The Wood will lower the Ph but by how much? I bought some coral to but into my filer will this be enough to balance out the effect the wood will have?

Thanks

Sabby

 

[nmonks]

Not by much. Provided you're doing water changes every couple of weeks, the pH change will be well within the tolerances of your fish. If you were keeping marines, it might be an issue, but brackish fish will like the tinted water and are used to fairly organic-rich environments anyway.

Cheers,

Neale

I have got a very big piece of Mangrove Swamp Wood for my new tank. The Wood will lower the Ph but by how much?

 

[AMS]

As Neale says your pH won't drop much. Brackish water tanks (espically high end tanks) are very well buffered, and some wood won't mess around with the pH very much. But by any chance it does drop a good amount the fish will be able to handle it well. I would reccomend trying to get the tannins off though, try pouring some boiling water over the wood repeatedly, or let it soak in some water for a week or so.

PS- Where did you get the wood?

 

[kanzaris]

As Neale says your pH won't drop much. Brackish water tanks (espically high end tanks) are very well buffered, and some wood won't mess around with the pH very much. But by any chance it does drop a good amount the fish will be able to handle it well. I would reccomend trying to get the tannins off though, try pouring some boiling water over the wood repeatedly, or let it soak in some water for a week or so.

PS- Where did you get the wood?

Hi AMS

I just put in the wood and it floats . It will not stay at the bottom of the tank. Well fed up paid £ 30 for that wood. Why is it floating?

Sabby

 

[CFC]

See if you can buy a coiled strip of plant weight at your fish store, coil the metal around the ends of the wood to sink it until it becomes waterlogged and stays sunk, this usually takes a few months.

 

[kanzaris]

See if you can buy a coiled strip of plant weight at your fish store, coil the metal around the ends of the wood to sink it until it becomes waterlogged and stays sunk, this usually takes a few months.

Hi CFC

Thanks

Nearly had a heart attack as it is such a big peace it took me and my hubby to hold it down. We managed to put five peaces of rock on it. I don't dare take it out as the Shark Cats already threatened to leave home they are not too pleased.
So it is normal for Mangrove Swamp Wood to float? I did soak it for two weeks. Just rang the LFS where I got it from and they said it only take two weeks what a joke. There is no tannins coming out of the wood either. So it's wait and see.

Thanks

Sabby

 

[CFC]

The big piece you can see to the left of the tank took around 6 months before it was fully water logged, after about 3 months it would sink but had a kind of neutral bouyancy and would move around the tank unless weighted down.

 

[kanzaris]

The big piece you can see to the left of the tank took around 6 months before it was fully water logged, after about 3 months it would sink but had a kind of neutral bouyancy and would move around the tank unless weighted down.

Thanks

We just took it out of the tank, bought some fishing line and going to tie some slate to the bottom to sink it.

Sabby

 

[MoMa]

If you have any friends who are masons (or if you have any exp. drilling through rock) make holes in the slate and use brass screws to affix the slate to the bottom of the bogwood.

there are 5 pieces of bogwood in that tank that i used the idea for. The 3 largest pieces are screwed to one piece of slate, so I had to use rocks to hold it down.