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i got my peice of african driftwood on thursday. i just put it in. it 30in long and 5in thick. i got it from foster and smith. it didn't displace anywater and the water didn't turn brown. can anyone tell me why. i just put it in the tank. there carbon in the filter too

b/c people make big deals about the tinting thing. i never notice it and i never boil or soak my wood either. but the carbon could probably remove the tannins before they could acumulate in the water column.
as for the water displacement it might jsut be b/c the size of the tank.

Carbon will remove much of the tannins, but carbon does need to be replaced. Since you purchased your wood it may have been presoaked and wouldn't have as much tannic acid in it as a piece that you might have found. Also different types of wood have different ammounts of tannins.

It also isn't always so noticible right away, three days may not make enough of a difference for you to notice it. The only reason I notice it in one of the office tanks is that when I do water changes the water shows up as not compleatly clear in my white water change bucket.

One way to check is to compair your PH to a test taken right before you added it and with one that you take now, also look @the water against a white background.
HTH a bit .

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Hey I got a piece of driftwood from Dr. Foster and Smith too.

How is it right now? Did you have to boil it or anything special?

Also, I have a tiny hold in the wood...should I be worried about fish getting stuck in it?


[span class="edited"][Edited by sly 2004-07-15 12:54][/span]

i didn't do anything to it but it did finally turn my water brownish yellow but i like it

Yeah, Foster & Smith's driftwood is pre-cured.

Ok, I put in the driftwood but now I'm waiting for the plants!