Most wood are safe for use..... Oak, Maple, Cherry, Beech, and yes Apple are all fine.

Take care,
Chuck


Ok great thank you. As far as the harder woods, I would imagine they shouldn’t be used for the wood eaters like Panaqolus though correct?

I use it in all of my tanks...… Panaqolus love it ...

Most wood are safe for use..... Oak, Maple, Cherry, Beech, and yes Apple are all fine.

Take care,
Chuck


Ok great thank you. As far as the harder woods, I would imagine they shouldn’t be used for the wood eaters like Panaqolus though correct?

I use it in all of my tanks...… Panaqolus love it ...

stuby wrote: 19 May 2019, 18:05 Most wood are safe for use..... Oak, Maple, Cherry, Beech, and yes Apple are all fine.

Take care,
Chuck

Ok great thank you. As far as the harder woods, I would imagine they shouldn’t be used for the wood eaters like Panaqolus though correct?

Most wood are safe for use..... Oak, Maple, Cherry, Beech, and yes Apple are all fine.

Take care,
Chuck

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It's best if it has been dead for about a year before you use it........ apple, cherry, oak, beech, are all safe to use and a bunch more. Stay away from cedar, fir, any pine, and the softer woods. I boil my wood before putting it in the tank.... that kills anything you don't want and make it so it will ...

... a good idea (like BasPels) suggest, and you could try fruit trees like Apple or Hazel. You could try relatively small diameter branches, both bark on ... faster on dead collected bogwood (without bark) than on fresh wood with (beech, privet hedge, apple) despite stripping the bark in under a fortnight. I ...

... don't really have facts on but have just avoided. Best woods I find are beech, apple, hawthorn and privet hedge. I tend to use wood that I find in rivers, but I also have used wood freshly cut from the garden.

Fresh wood will tend to grow fungus and make the water smell bad (but not stagnant - it's a ...

... a certain degree useable for tanks.
common and useful hardwoods include beech, oak and fruit trees (cherry, apple, pear).

a few other hardwoods are tropical; like mangrove (available in the shops) and mopani (a very hard wood)


apart from those, most 'fresh forest' woods are best avoided!
anything ...

... the 2 species that you can use without any problems are oak and beech.

fruit trees are also hardwood (cherry, apple, pear),
but the ones related to peaches, apricots and almonds are quite poisdonous and branches or wood of the walnut tree will depopulate an entire tank within hours or less ...

Apple is fine.

The suggestion of alder roots is a fantastic one. Lots of deciduous trees that like on riverbanks or canalsides have masses of submerged ... twiggy looking.

Creating your own root mass with a bunch of fine cut beech twigs - these take very little time to become submerged & my pygmaeus ...

... of driftwood along the shores and nothing a nice long boil wont cure. Oak and Apple seem to be the best,but beech is ok too. stay away from soft wood.

... faster on dead collected bogwood (without bark) than on fresh wood with (beech, privet hedge, apple) despite stripping the bark in under a fortnight. I was surprised at this thinking fresher would be better. Roughly equal sawdust laden poo is produced. I guess that micro-organisms in the top 2mm of ...

... but not certain.

Fine to use is any fruit-trees from the garden (apple, pear, cherry, and so on), as is all native decideous trees (beech, birch, oak, alder, willow, and so on).

If you have Panaque or Ancistrus in the tank, you can put "green" (freshly cut) branches in the tank with no worry ...

... bark is relished and that pretty much any deciduous wood is OK. I use beech, hawthorn (submersed outside for 6-12 months) and actually fresh privet hedge which also sinks straight from the bush. Next year I am going to try chestnut and copper beech as well as some lichen infested cooking apple ...

The best wood, in my opinion, is off-cuts from garden trees such as apple, pear, plum and cherry - non fruit ones such as oak, birch and beech are perfectly fine too. There are only a few types of wood you should avoid: the ones with a lot of resin, such as pine, fir, cypress, juniper, etc, and ones ...

... of the conifer species, larch pine cedar etc
what I give my Panaques is apple oak beech alder and hawthorn, I generally peal the bark off if there is any on the branches and I have had no complaints or problems.
I have just found that the older the wood the quicker they eat through it.
I read ...

... a bit too solid. Some bogwood/redmoor etc would be better or a piece of beech/oak branch - there are plenty of other options - Mats uses apple i believe (?)

I know individual experiences vary, however i can tell you for a fact that my pleco's grave on the mopani wood, it is the only piece i have in ...

... a bit too solid. Some bogwood/redmoor etc would be better or a piece of beech/oak branch - there are plenty of other options - Mats uses apple i believe (?)

... Thank you.

Rather than dead wood I have used winter prunings from our apple tree

Interesting. Its great that people test new things that go ... wood provided it is not toxic or full of resins etc. Avoid coniferous trees for these reasons.

Oak and beech also work, as well as most fruit trees.

... or Spruce and definitely not ASH. Otherwise most wood is fine: Birch, beech, oak, cherry, apple, plum, pear, grape-vines, willow, etc, etc.

You will want to submerge it in water for a while before you put it in the tank, just to soak it thoroughly. If it doesn't sink by itself when you put it in ...

... use just about any leafy tree, including branches of garden-fruit trees (apple, pear, cherry, peach, plum) or many "decorative" or native trees (ash, birch, beech, oak, willow, hazel, chestnut, grape-vine etc). Dead branches are better than live ones, so if you have some old branches laying about, then ...

... sell in the shops) works fine, as does branches of fruit-trees (cherry, apple, plum, pear, etc), leafy trees that you normally find in the park/forest (beech, birch, oak, walnut, chestnut, maple, etc), etc, etc. I would stay away from cypress, juniper, pine, fir, and such, since they have high resin ...

... no-no, and I wouldn't use spruce or pine either. Cherry, oak, ash, beech, birch, orange, apple, plum, pear, etc would be just fine. Whatever you happen to have, really.

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Mats

... A dead-branch of the cherry tree for instance works just fine. Oak, beech, apple, orange, peach, etc, etc. I'd stay away from pine, spruce, cedar etc.

A piece of for instance mahogny would surely work nicely too - any small piece from your local DIY-shop or builders merchant.

Any dried wood ...

... as long as you don't clear the whole forest of fallen off bits.]

Oak, beech, cherry, apple - any leafy tree really, works fine. Branches of pine or spruce may contain stuff that you don't really want in the tank - not a good idea I would think...

Obviously, your local DIY shop/garden centre would ...

... wood like cedar, yew-tree, etc, you should be fine. Most fruit-trees (apple, orange, etc) works fine, as well as most other common garden trees (oak, beech, birch, etc). Only problem is that lighter types of wood will take a bit longer to get water-logged and sink. You don't have to wait for it to ...

... try and feed your fish small bits of kiwi without the peel, tiny bits of apple (ditto), bits of mango, grapes, berries, and tropical fresh fruits. THE ... might be possible. If so, make sure to have leaves (well rinsed oak and beech are safe), moss, floating moss (riccia), Floaters (Limnobium, Pistia ...