Securing Wood?

[Vancar]

As the topic says, I need to try and weight down the wood in my tank as it wobbles about with just light touching. Any suggestions?

 

[waterdrop]

You might try a PM to oldman47, I think he has weighted wood and mentioned it in the past. WD

 

[OldMan47]

Weighing down wood is a breeze. If your wood is near neutral buoyancy, simply use a stainless steel screw to attach a piece of slate to your piece of wood. I find that slate can be had at very good prices at my local home improvement center, it is sold as an alternative to floor tile. I take some of that and use a carborundum drill bit to make a hole in it. Then I take the piece that I have selected and screw it to the bottom of a nice piece of wood. The pieces I use are all made from a single floor tile. If I need much less than a full foot sq

Weighing down wood is a breeze. If your wood is near neutral buoyancy, simply use a stainless steel screw to attach a piece of slate to your piece of wood. I find that slate can be had at very good prices at my local home improvement center, it is sold as an alternative to floor tile. I take some of that and use a carborundum drill bit to make a hole in it. Then I take the piece that I have selected and screw it to the bottom of a nice piece of wood. The pieces I use are all made from a single floor tile. If I need much less than a full foot sq

Weighing down wood is a breeze. If your wood is near neutral buoyancy, simply use a stainless steel screw to attach a piece of slate to your piece of wood. I find that slate can be had at very good prices at my local home improvement center, it is sold as an alternative to floor tile. I take some of that and use a carborundum drill bit to make a hole in it. Then I take the piece that I have selected and screw it to the bottom of a nice piece of wood. The pieces I use are all made from a single floor tile. If I need much less than a full foot sq I simply use a hammer to shape the piece I want. By simply tapping along a line over and over again, the tile will fall apart along that line Once I have the slate attached to the wood with a stainless steel screw, I simply bury the slate under my substrate and it looks like the wood is simply sitting on the substrate itself, after a short time. I try to judge how big a piece I need to properly anchor my wood in place and simply shape that size piece of floor tile.
When I have the slate buried in the substrate, I end up with the look of the wood simply sitting on the substrate.