Bogwood

[Tortea]

Is it really just as easy as finding dead wood, which isn't green, boiling it and leaving it too soak for a few weeks?

Or am i missing something.

 

[mini_matt]

buy it at lfs or other pet store

 

[markandhisfish]

sod pet stores get it on a well known auction site. much cheaper

 

[kizno1]

its cheaper just to go out and find the wood but it dosnt take a bit more effoert to sand it and boil it. i found wood for my tank all the bark needs to be gone or if when you give it a smaalll nock it just falls off. then you need to sand it to get ride of any bark left or mold or anythink. then soak it till it sinks weighing it down with somethink the boil it and then its safe to go in the tank

 

[crabbylion]

its cheaper just to go out and find the wood but it dosnt take a bit more effoert to sand it and boil it. i found wood for my tank all the bark needs to be gone or if when you give it a smaalll nock it just falls off. then you need to sand it to get ride of any bark left or mold or anythink. then soak it till it sinks weighing it down with somethink the boil it and then its safe to go in the tank

There's an Oak Tree in our back yard that drops branches from time to time. You think I can use it if I tried your methods described here?

 

[OldMan47]

I take dead branches that are still attached to my trees and cut them to size after about a year. That lets them air dry for a year while still attached to the tree. By the time I cut them off I know they are well dried out. As Kizno said, there should be no bark left on the wood when you put it into your tank so if it hasn't already fallen off, I remove it. So far I have been doing this with wood from an apple tree but see no reason not to use oak. I would avoid using some woods like walnut because they have chemicals in them that inhibit growth of other plants and I don't know what those chemicals would do to my fish. Look at the dead wood on your oak and find some of it that suits you.

 

[kizno1]

its cheaper just to go out and find the wood but it dosnt take a bit more effoert to sand it and boil it. i found wood for my tank all the bark needs to be gone or if when you give it a smaalll nock it just falls off. then you need to sand it to get ride of any bark left or mold or anythink. then soak it till it sinks weighing it down with somethink the boil it and then its safe to go in the tank

There's an Oak Tree in our back yard that drops branches from time to time. You think I can use it if I tried your methods described here?

oak will be fine i think thats what mine is. you can also use the leaves of oak trees once they fall of and do brown and cruchy just wash them and pop them in.

 

[crabbylion]

its cheaper just to go out and find the wood but it dosnt take a bit more effoert to sand it and boil it. i found wood for my tank all the bark needs to be gone or if when you give it a smaalll nock it just falls off. then you need to sand it to get ride of any bark left or mold or anythink. then soak it till it sinks weighing it down with somethink the boil it and then its safe to go in the tank

There's an Oak Tree in our back yard that drops branches from time to time. You think I can use it if I tried your methods described here?

oak will be fine i think thats what mine is. you can also use the leaves of oak trees once they fall of and do brown and cruchy just wash them and pop them in.

To Bogwood, after watching those links you sent I think i'll forgo the pursuit of Driftwood. Oak trees seem to do just well. I would imagine the Oak leave technique is favorable for more than just Betta?

 

[kizno1]

its cheaper just to go out and find the wood but it dosnt take a bit more effoert to sand it and boil it. i found wood for my tank all the bark needs to be gone or if when you give it a smaalll nock it just falls off. then you need to sand it to get ride of any bark left or mold or anythink. then soak it till it sinks weighing it down with somethink the boil it and then its safe to go in the tank

There's an Oak Tree in our back yard that drops branches from time to time. You think I can use it if I tried your methods described here?

oak will be fine i think thats what mine is. you can also use the leaves of oak trees once they fall of and do brown and cruchy just wash them and pop them in.

To Bogwood, after watching those links you sent I think i'll forgo the pursuit of Driftwood. Oak trees seem to do just well. I would imagine the Oak leave technique is favorable for more than just Betta?

yh most bottom dwellers will hid under them and other fish might like them aswell. it will tan your tank slightly aswell like wood.