I have 3 large artifical stumps that when i bought them they were a greenish
color and in less than a year they are almost white. most of the paint has
fallen off. I have never had a problem with my water or the way it looks, i
know it makes no senes to me either. I no longer use them because of the
way it looks now. But they did not stink that i can remember.
"NetMax" wrote in message
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"Jonathan Wood" wrote in message
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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


And what do you think that they would do if they found out? Their reps
would tell the stores to refund or replace the product if anyone comes in
with a complain. What else would they do? It might have been a batch
problem, so the quantity affected might be very limited (if it's even the
artificial wood and not something else).
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