NetMax,

I have no comments or experience with the particular product that you
have, but since these products are not required to be tested against any
mandatory safety specifications, manufacturers will (and do) try out
different suppliers. These suppliers will experiment with different
recipes for the substances used to colour and seal the product (ideally
searching for a single application, colour and sealer). Don't make too
many assumptions. If they had a bad recipe (or just made an error in
preparing a batch), or the product was improperly prepared/primed, then
the amount of bad product might not be enough to register much of a
reaction to read about on the web.

Yeah, I couldn't find anything. The only assumption I'm really making is
that they are selling these by the boatload and if there is a problem, I'd
expect them to find out pretty quick.

In any investigation, remove all variables and then replace them one by
one. It might be interesting to put the artificial wood in a pail with
some minnows for a few weeks. Good luck.

I'm definitely thinking about pulling all of them out during my next water
change. Unfortunately, the tank will look pretty bare. Also, the problem is
pretty subtle and it would be hard to determine when it had in fact gone
away. Particularly since I would probably not do a 100% water change at that
time and chemicals could possibly still be in the water.

I guess I'm curious if other folks' artificial decorations (non-plants) tend
to smell strange. I don't know if that's normal or not.

Thanks.

Jonathan