Mopani Wood Leaching Tannis

kingmed

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I have some drift wood in my 29 gallon and 55 gallon, the 55 gallon is getting better and the water color is getting lighter little by little however the 29 gallon is still a little darker yet. Before I put the pieces of Mopani in the tanks I boiled them in pots on the stove for an couple of hours, I was wondering if it would damage the wood if I boiled the wood again this weekend to try and get more of the tannis out of the wood. I'm not worried about the color and it doesn't look to bad, my wife however is not crazy about it.
 
Ya, it usually will take longer than a couple hours even when boiling. the tannins are infused throughout the wood and it takes time to get it all out. The wood I have, even after soaking it for a month, changing the water every day, still made my tank go a little dark when I first put it in. But over the next month of doing wc's, things cleared up.

And no, shouldn't hurt anything by taking it out and boiling it again this weekend.

Ox :good:
 
Ya, it usually will take longer than a couple hours even when boiling. the tannins are infused throughout the wood and it takes time to get it all out. The wood I have, even after soaking it for a month, changing the water every day, still made my tank go a little dark when I first put it in. But over the next month of doing wc's, things cleared up.

And no, shouldn't hurt anything by taking it out and boiling it again this weekend.

Ox :good:
THANKX.
 

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