Some Bogwood Questions.

[mike_nofx]

I want to set up a new tank soon, and would like a piece of bogwood in it. The tank will be about 1.2m long.
I want bogwood because it will lower the PH a bit, and because it looks good.

How do you get the bogwood ready for your tank so it wont make the water go tea colour? I like a nice clear tank.

Is there any plants that go particularly well with the bogwood? or just any plants.

Is bogwood the only type of wood you put in a tank? or is there different types?

Thanks

 

[phlawed]

I want to set up a new tank soon, and would like a piece of bogwood in it. The tank will be about 1.2m long.
I want bogwood because it will lower the PH a bit, and because it looks good.

How do you get the bogwood ready for your tank so it wont make the water go tea colour? I like a nice clear tank.

Is there any plants that go particularly well with the bogwood? or just any plants.

Is bogwood the only type of wood you put in a tank? or is there different types?

Thanks

i put mine in a plastic tub and showered it down with the shower for about 15 minutes then dumped out the tub of water and washed it off agian. Then i put it in my tank and only a few little particles floated off of it to the filter. Water color never changed.

 

[willtang3000]

there are many types of wood such as mopani but those 2 are only usually used because they are 100% safe meanwhile you will have to brush your wood with something like a toothbrush to get rid of the dirt and leave it in seperate water to the tank for a week and after that you can place it in

 

[BigIan]

my friend found the best way to get all the colour out of bog wood is to soak it in warm water changing the water as often as possible untill it stop colouring the water

 

[nmonks]

To rinse wood (or shells, or stones) the best trick is to put it in the cistern of your loo. Each time you flush, the wood will get rinsed in a large volume of water. Obviously you can't do this if your cistern has a chemical additive in it like a bleach block, but this is otherwise a very safe method.

If your fish are soft water fish, like neons, angels, and corydoras any slight acidification caused by the wood will be harmless, perhaps even beneficial. In a hard water aquarium, the risks depend on how much wood you are using. One or two 30 cm long pieces in a tank containing 100 litres of water will have next to no effect on pH. In an aquarium with brackish water, the hardness in the sea salt will amply compensate for the tannins in the wood.

The safest approach is to combine weekly pH tests with weekly water changes, at least for the first few weeks after introduction of the wood. Realistically, wood has far less effect on pH than people imagine. It is important to separate the colouration of the water, which does happen when you add even a little piece of wood, with substantial changes in pH, for which you need a lot of wood.

Cheers,

Neale

 

[jakey boi]

Yeh bogwood looks really nice in a tank, if u wash it well before u place it in the tank the water should not go a tea colour, if it does after a wile hopefully it will clear away maybe if you do some water changes.

jakey boi!!

 

[BigIan]

i`ve been informed that if you do get a colouration in the water changing the charcoal in your filter should help!