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Dr Engelbert Buxbaum
January 21st 04, 01:42 PM
Jason Allen Finnigan wrote:

> hi me and a friend took a trip to a nearby beach today and picked up a
> couple of pieces of driftwood and we are not sure how to prep them to go in
> our tanks any help would be greatly appreciated


Most types of driftwood will slowly rot when submerged in a tank.
Exception is so-called peatwood, which has been curing in a swamp for a
couple of thousand years and are now resistant to rotting. Most fish
shops will sell some specimens.

pruned the crossposting a little bit