Tannins, Gary. The same kind of natural dyes found in red wine. I agree with you that the type of wood you describe would be the best to use.

However, go for it Ryan! I can't see any reason why your plan wouldn't work. Were you able to find any additional info from others who have used found wood? There's got to be lots of them...

We used large pieces of driftwood in our 180g FW tank several years ago. They were too big to sterilize in the oven, so we boiled up heap loads of tapwater and poured the water over each separate piece of wood. Took awhile to do all the pieces, but they were fine in the tank for as long as we had it set up.

Thanks for all te help guys/gals. THey are in 5 gallon pails right now with some guppies. I want to make sure i got all the bleach out. If the guppies die i will do more rinsing and sokaing but i think it should all be done. Ill take some pictures once it is in the tank.

Some chlorine neutralizer might have worked just fine too. :neutral:

Tony I didnt mean it like i was killing guppies. This gave me an excuse to go out and buy more fish which i know everyone on this board likes to do. I probaly would have put hem in there if i didnt think it was safe. I mean i have a pond full of 7 cent feeder minnows i could have used.

Never heard of a guppy bleach test kit....

Is there a method for using them to test for Ca and Alk too? :lol:

Brennan

hahaha guppies dont live in SW trust me i have tried. Anyway i sold my other 3 smaller Discus for some store credit and bought a wisteria i think, a sword and a anubia. Tomorrow i will put the driftwood into form and in the tank. We will see how it goes.

Properly acclimated, they do indeed live in salt water....

Realy i tried to so it slowly by adding a little bit of salt every day and they died. I cant remeber at wat SG but they didnt make it to reef tank SG.

Try this link out http://www.aquariumadvice.com/showqu...q=2&fldAuto=34