Sinking Driftwood

jm1212 said:
1. thats a huge piece of driftwood.

2. some pieces take longer to sink than others. give it some time and it will sink eventually.
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lol yup! just gotta wait, thats really all there is to it!

and i don't know if you can tell from the picture but the thick end of it is slightly hovering above the gravel, so once it waterlogs it will fall back to the gravel and the dowel rod will fall out...pretty good indicator.
 
I would also watch for what you might have introduced to your tank from soaking it in a pond and then placing it in your tank.
 
the way i see it, the more hitch-hikers the better! there were two leeches on it and i don't see them anymore so they're either sucked onto the top of my tank where i can't see them, deep inside the wood somewhere, or my fish ate them! there were also a whole bunch of some type of fly larvae attached to one of the branches, and my fish have eaten most of them off.
 
Hmmmm...some hitchhikers are not desirable..maybe bringing in issues your fish are not genetically designed to fight. Just a thought.
 
yeah, that is always a possibility, but this log was taken from their natural habitat, so i think they'll be alright ;)

natives (sunfish especially) are much hardier than the tropical fish most people on here keep.
 
That's a very nice looking piece of driftwood! However I agree with the other posts that it will most likely (considering the size) take at least a year to finally start sinking. It just sucks that most of the time the best looking driftwood is always the hardest to deal with!
 
dang! i wasn't anticipating that long of a wait!

maybe i will ditch the dowel and get some rocks!! it would be a little easier on the eyes at least.
 
Or use stainless steel screws and attach slate to the bottom that can be covered with the substrate...
 
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