get him a girlfriendI would welcome a picture of your canaries! Here is my 'bird from hell'.
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get him a girlfriendI would welcome a picture of your canaries! Here is my 'bird from hell'.
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I never thought of nuking stuff. Of course one could not do that when there is a plant mounted.about 40 years ago i brought home a really nice piece of driftwood out of a local stream. it was about 12 inches longest end. i put it in hot water and took a scrub brush to it till it looked clean.
i put it in the aquarium and about 2 weeks later i started to miss some small fish. took some serious looking but there it was, a dragon fly larva had hatched and fully developed and had a neon tetra in each claw.
i was able to net it and there wasn't any more in the aquarium after that.
after that i soak any driftwood even from a store and put it in the microwave for 5 minutes.
Okay, I agree. But the wood looked too good I couldn't help myself!Well, the moral here is obvious...never use wood you collect, it can have all sorts of issues. And boiling is not going to deal with all, depending. Rotting wood is no fun, it kills fish too. An enclosed aquarium is no where near the same as a natural habitat where all these things have little or no impact.
Okay, I agree. But the wood looked too good I couldn't help myself!
I can show pic and prove it if I have to.
Good to know! If anything goes downhill, I will try and learn from your story!
I do know what kind of wood it is, and did research to make sure it would be safe.
It is maple, a hardwood, and supposedly safe.