"RedForeman ©®" wrote in message ...
|| Anyone have experience collecting wild driftwood?
|| What processing steps do you need to take? Boiling
|| with salt, disinfecting etc. Is this a dangeroius proposition?
|| Bought Store driftwood is bloody expensive.
|| ...Kodiak

I use some out of rivers and lakes around here... I try to use what's
already laid out, dried out, and nowhere near rotting... hard branches, if
it's got ANY soft spots, it's gone...

Bleach it, rinse it, boil it, bake it, sun dry it for a couple days, soak it
again, then either soak it again or use it..



I agree. To be doubly safe, you can put the driftwood in a different
tank and put some goldfish in it. If the goldfish thrive after, lets
say, 2 weeks to a month, then you are doing good. If they are belly up
(due to the wood and not fowl water) pitch it.

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