Save MONEY & Avoid The DANGERS of Collecting DRIFTWOOD for your AQUARIUM 10 Tips for Safe Fish Tanks

* PLEASE CHECK WHERE YOU CAN LEGALLY COLLECT WOOD, WHEN IN DOUBT, STAY ON PRIVATE PROPERTY

Save Money, Avoid Toxic Wood. The DANGER LIST for wood and Driftwood being used in your aquarium or fish tank aquascape!

1. NO Toxic woods
60,000 trees / wood.
hemlock, cedar, cherry, almond, bosse, brazil wood, poplar, cashew, sassafrass, rosewood,, wormwood, Australian Cyprus, Doug fir, ebony, ironwood, teak, yew, fresh oak, mulga, iroko, milky mangrove, sumak, bitter Almond,sweet chestnut olive,mahogany, orange, oleander, grapewood , black walnut, juniper, or
2.b - no (3 fs),fungicides, pesticides, fossil fuels or fertilizers
3. Mold and decay + green wood
4. Debug/debark/ remove moss lichen
5. Harder the wood the better
6. Time 3S (seasoning) sun, salt and soaking ...
7- - boil or (sun bleach )
8. Soak ( never use soap)
9. Test wood in 5 gallon bucket ph/ammonia /nitrates
10.Use a hatchet or saw (roots look best)


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