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Re: [APD] Twigs?



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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