It Finally Sank....

[pattinjojo2]

i finally got it to sink using the slate idea, but now its been in all day...... and when i came home tonight my WHOLE tank was so brown and cloudy, i dont understand, i let it soak for 8 days before i put it in, i just did 90% water change and its still cloudy, but nowhere as bad as before, i also lost to of my fish, that really sucks, does anyone have a suggestion to get rid of the cloudyness? i removed the wood and am using artificial, its not my 1st time with wood, i just dont understand. 4 juveniles that i have are just staying at the top of the tank. they barely come down. im freakin out.....
AHHHHHHHH

 

[Monte20]

it takes a good wkile for to sink, have to be patient. or do what i did. let it sit in a pot of hot water on the stove for a while. helps speed up the soaking. otherwise it can take days

 

[Silverlady]

I had the same problem with my piece,I solved it by tieing a piece of my Husbands nylon fishing line around the wood then round a piece of Slate that was in the tank.
I cut it loose about two weeks later.

 

[Lynden]

Some driftwood never sinks, hence the name driftwood. I still have to weigh mine down after months in the tank.

 

[steelhealr]

Boiled mine..sank in 5 minutes. SH

 

[big mick]

I have a huge trunk in mine that even after a week hadnt sunk so I dried it, siliconed it to a piece of slate and ist been grand.

You can just see it to the left of this picturebehind the discus, I know its a rubbish picture but my camera always takes pictures too big to post and the 'photo bucket' thing didnt work.

 

[daddyfish]

I had the same problem with my piece,I solved it by tieing a piece of my Husbands nylon fishing line around the wood then round a piece of Slate that was in the tank.
I cut it loose about two weeks later.

Shucks YOU said exactly what I was going to say.

Except I did mine one bit different.

When my driftwood wouldn't SINK, THIS is what I did.

I took some AQUARIUM Safe Epoxy avaliable at your LPS, Which I always keep around cause you never can tell when I might need it.

Used it to attach a good sized peice of Slate to the Bottom of the Driftwood, Never had the Problem Since.

My wife would Cringe at this Statement but I'll make it anyways.

I guess Two GREAT FISHY MINDS do Think Alike.

Scary Thought isn't it???

 

[Durbkat]

Guys I belive he already said he got it to sink but it turned his water brown and killed two fish so he needs to know why it killed them and why are two more of his fish staying at the top and away from the driftwood. Also why did you do a 90% water change you might have just caused the tank to go into a mini cycle?

 

[Silverlady]

I had the same problem with my piece,I solved it by tieing a piece of my Husbands nylon fishing line around the wood then round a piece of Slate that was in the tank.
I cut it loose about two weeks later.

Shucks YOU said exactly what I was going to say.

Except I did mine one bit different.

When my driftwood wouldn't SINK, THIS is what I did.

I took some AQUARIUM Safe Epoxy avaliable at your LPS, Which I always keep around cause you never can tell when I might need it.

Used it to attach a good sized peice of Slate to the Bottom of the Driftwood, Never had the Problem Since.

My wife would Cringe at this Statement but I'll make it anyways.

I guess Two GREAT FISHY MINDS do Think Alike.

Scary Thought isn't it???

Never been called a Great Fishy Mind before,or any sort of Great Mind for that matter

 

[randalthor]

All I did was boil it for 1 hour, not only did it remove the sap (discolors your water) but it sunk like a rock. Another thing you can try if it is semi sinking, is burring part of it under your substrate.

 

[Erised]

Guys I belive he already said he got it to sink but it turned his water brown and killed two fish so he needs to know why it killed them and why are two more of his fish staying at the top and away from the driftwood. Also why did you do a 90% water change you might have just caused the tank to go into a mini cycle?

The person changed his/her main post from asking advice how to sink it to what it is now That's why most respondses are about how to get it to sink..

About the water discolouration, that's completely normal. It's simply what the wood does. Most people boil it for a couple of hours, then leave it soaking for about 2 weeks putting clean water in every day ... and even then it will still leak.

However, it should not kill your fish. Actually, most fish prefer tanned water ... so something else is going on there. It might indeed be the 90% water change. This will more than likely have caused your tank to go through a cycle again, and this might have killed the fish.

 

[randalthor]

Guys I belive he already said he got it to sink but it turned his water brown and killed two fish so he needs to know why it killed them and why are two more of his fish staying at the top and away from the driftwood. Also why did you do a 90% water change you might have just caused the tank to go into a mini cycle?

The person changed his/her main post from asking advice how to sink it to what it is now That's why most respondses are about how to get it to sink..

About the water discolouration, that's completely normal. It's simply what the wood does. Most people boil it for a couple of hours, then leave it soaking for about 2 weeks putting clean water in every day ... and even then it will still leak.

However, it should not kill your fish. Actually, most fish prefer tanned water ... so something else is going on there. It might indeed be the 90% water change. This will more than likely have caused your tank to go through a cycle again, and this might have killed the fish.

I boiled mine for an hour and all the color came out.


And another posible reason that they died is that wherever you got the wood from, there could have been harmfull desiese or bacteria (thats another reason to boil it)