How To Anchor Bog Wood!?

[DanielG]

Hi all,

I am gonna get some bog wood for my new tank and wondered if you had any suggestions on the best way to anchor it down until it stays submerged?

 

[community begginer]

use rocks. i had to use 2 medium sized rocks for my wood and after 2 years it has finally sunk on its own.
good luck.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

2 years! jesus you have some patience. i just stick it in the tank and wait for it to sink

 

[Lion007]

Get some Marine stainless steel eyes (the screw in ones) & screw these to the underside, then go to a local tackle shop and get some of the non toxic fishing weights for carp & clip them on (these are the ones with a rubber coating).
Thats how ive sunk thigs before, however after boiling & soaking my bogwood for 2 days - it sank easily & no colour has come out either!

 

[ian01]

Hi Daniel

I submerged my bogwood by using fishing string and tying it to the bogwood, i then tyed the end around a brick which i put in the tank. But make sure you wrap the string right around the piece, and you tie it tightly. It took about two weeks for a large piece of bogwood to sink

 

[BigC]

Siilicone to a flat piece of slate or glass and bury the glass/slate in the gravel. otherwise wait.
Regards
BigC

 

[orange shark]

Cant you just boil it in water until it sinks?

 

[DarkEntity]

Ive yet in the 15 years of keeping fish to ever get a piece of bogwood that didnt sink by itself and needed weighing down.

 

[rdd1952]

It really depends on where you get it. Most of what you buy commercially has been bleached and dried so it has to get water logged again.. it also usually comes with slate attached to it. I have always just soaked mine for a couple weeks (also helps remove some of the tannins) and then placed it in the tank burying the slate as deep in the substrate as possible. Not only does that hide the slate but it also helps hold it down.

 

[community begginer]

2 years! jesus you have some patience. i just stick it in the tank and wait for it to sink

Yeah i know. when i had them there i was thinking to myself : OMG!! will you just sink already.. lol but then i took a look at the way the rocks were positioned and i decided to leave them the way they were because i really digged the caves that they made with the bog wood.... nearly all of my corries use them. its great.
regards,
community

 

[the biffster]

Ive yet in the 15 years of keeping fish to ever get a piece of bog wood that didnt sink by itself and needed weighing down.

same here if i did get a bit that floats it would be suspect as not been true
bogwood if i did get some that did floats it would be in the bucket till it sinks
never heard of boiling bog wood

good luck biff

PS i remember go to a fish auction once and the auctioneer said here we have some bog wood
for sale went and banged it on the table to show it as nice and heavy piece of bog oak he hit the
table again and the table fell apart it was quite funny he got a good laugh made the day really