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Re: [APD] Twigs?
well I do know my girlfriend had a tank which I couldn't figure out why
every fish she put in there died and the only reason I could figure out
being that all my water tests showed up fine, was that the few peices of
driftwood she put in there which were growing some wierd fungus, was killing
them off.
damn that was a runon sentence if I ever saw one.
On 5/3/07, Derek Parr <derekparr at earthlink_net> wrote:
>
> people and fish live outside all the time.... I don't think it is as
> dangerous as some people fear. I throw wood and rocks into my tanks
> without doing a thing. I do get some interesting fungal growth and such
> on the wood for the first few weeks though. I would make a point of
> not using green wood or non-deciduous wood though.
>
> -derek parr
>
>
> Vaughn Hopkins wrote:
> > The safest way to sterilize wood is to boil it. That also helps to
> > saturate it with water so it will sink better. I don't know of any
> > pest that can survive boiling water.
> >
> > Vaughn
> >
> > On May 3, 2007, at 3:09 AM, Joel Fizette wrote:
> >
> >> I think I remember reading somewhere that copper sulphate is used
> >> to control
> >> algae...
> >> Now are you saying to mix hyrochloric acid and copper sulphate
> >> together?
> >> I'm planning on collecting some wood soon.
> >> would a bleach bath do just as well?
> >>
> >>
> >> On 5/2/07, Richard J. Sexton <richard at aquaria_net> wrote:
> >>> At 02:23 PM 5/1/07 -0700, you wrote:
> >>>> I was at the Vancouver Public Aquarium this weekend and I saw
> >>>> they had a
> >>>> really interesting Checkerboard Dwarf Cichlid set-up which was
> >>>> interesting for two reasons:
> >>>> 1. Stocking: They had allot of checkerboards in the tank, I think it
> >>>> must have easily been one checkerboard per 25cm^3 of tank bottom!
> >>>> 2. Twigs & Branches: They'd used twigs and very small branches
> >>>> (diameter
> >>>> less than 4cm) to create lots & lots of territory markers for the
> >>>> cichlids, which is how I'm guessing they managed to get so many
> >>>> dwarves
> >>>> into the tank without a blood bath.
> >>>>
> >>>> My query is where can I get similar branches and twigs that would be
> >>>> suitable for a South American set-up and that would not float? I've
> >>>> never seen any size or shape of bog wood smaller/finer than the
> >>>> chunk/lumps of bogwood that's at least the size of your fist
> >>>> offered for
> >>>> sale at stores...
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>> Daniel
> >>> Use waterlogged sticks from a river if you like to live dangerously,
> >>> or let some dry sticks soak they they are waterlogged. Or glue them
> >>> with silicone to a couple of large flat rocks.
> >>>
> >>> You should disinfect any wild wood - soak in copper sulphate and a
> >>> hydrochloric
> >>> acid rinse will kill anything.
> >>>
> >>> Alum and salt would probably do the trick too.
> >>>
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