Re: [APD] Twigs?

[Derek Parr <derekparr at earthlink_net>]

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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