what up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustin's fish tanks bringing it to you
on a Sunday baby its species Sunday but I want to do something special for you
all today I know you all wanted to see my would for a long time so I want to
talk about driftwood today here's what's up I got Brian over here I want to talk
today about a lot of the driftwood that I have and kind of how we got it
collected it that sort of thing today's video we're going to talk about
hardwoods we're going to talk about a couple different types of driftwood
we're going to talk about how to treat it
talk about tannins and just driftwood in general here's what's up let's start all
the way over to the right I'm going to talk about this piece of driftwood I got
this sucker in Peru brought it back with me and yeah obviously just awesome
obviously it's a hardwood and this thing floats like a cork which is why it's not
in any of my tanks no brah this dude right here is responsible for many many
sick sick pieces of driftwood let it be known what's up Aidan so she's inside
but he get up to the door glass pour she'll go to the door and ask for this
piece of wood right here was originally found by brian as well
it's from where'd you find this Lake Cumberland Lake Arlen this was in
Steve's old 55 so very very cool these are probably a salt that's probably a
soft type of wood though yeah that is definitely softer wood it built decay in
a little time your time and you can see that with like the way it just kind of
like peels away I can just kind of break it off so just something to know about
you know that the driftwood may not last forever if you go out and find it on
your own this stuff right here is definitely definitely Malaysian
driftwood I really like this driftwood because it's super super like heavy in a
hardwood and it's got all these crazy like lines in it which is definitely
cool this is the smaller stuff that I get in so that stuff's not bad this
piece is just funky I don't know there's got to be a joke in there somewhere but
so yeah this piece of driftwood is pretty sweet we got this from our board
curt now what this is he had this in a pretty cool perfect for a 10 gallon tank
he had it a 10 gallon a moth and rickets yeah and the end Kurt
just sucked with it and then we're shelling this one here hardwood Bryan's
got the tubes stuck in a hole there and it's coming out the bottom yeah we're
trying to get it through the does the main hole on the top here if you
waterlog it for a while it will decay because it's pretty soft and actually
get your finger down about a couple inches in there and it's pretty soft on
this top side too yeah so in time it will probably hollow out from here this
is another piece of Kentucky wood though yeah really cool that's been floated in
my pond floating being the optimal word there because we're trying to get the
sink to get it in a tank but very sweet this is the piece a rejected piece of
manzanita driftwood manzanita driftwood comm I'll plug them there where I got on
my wood for my 220 definitely cool really easy to do business with and they
send you a whole big box it's got a lot of character to it this one was just too
too Plain Jane for me and then this one up here is the old 220 blog some of you
all know about really I'm keeping it sentimental value it's also just a sweet
piece of driftwood I was on the side of Tyler's of the lake and I pulled that
sucker out and it was like on the edge and I was like dude this is coming with
me and the guys that I was with only one of them was into aquariums they're kind
of like you're out of your skull dude and I took it home and it was in the 220
for a real long time another soft wood though you can tell by
the way it's just been kind of breaking off here in the woods just oops I didn't
want to do that but whatever so yeah it's what it is
so any other tips bright I like to buy like to boil it you don't I mean I think
boiling it works and it helps them sink gets rid of some of the tannins opens up
the wood you're saying now I've got a trash can that I felt
water and more rocks on my wood and I soak them outside for a year or so then
add a cup of bleach to the water let it soak a little bit longer than
dechlorinate rinse it off we will spray it with the high pressure washer and
anything it goes tank it goes so yeah man that's what's up folks welcome new
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