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March 19th, 2009
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| You're very correct, Meg. Quantity can be a problem with some bugs (there's ICH in almost every one of our tanks, but it only becomes a problem when allowed to grow in numbers). In this case, though, it usually isn't. The slimy stuff that grows is either a bacteria that feeds on wood or a mold that does the same. Either way, it seems to have no negative effect on fish (based on the fact that many of us have had the same stuff, and it hasn't harmed our fish.)
I'm like you, and I don't accept it when someone says "it just works that way." I always ask "why?" A lot of people on here are like that. It's how we've all learned as much as we have.  | 
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March 19th, 2009
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Originally Posted by sirdarksol  You're very correct, Meg. Quantity can be a problem with some bugs (there's ich in almost every one of our tanks, but it only becomes a problem when allowed to grow in numbers). In this case, though, it usually isn't. The slimy stuff that grows is either a bacteria that feeds on wood or a mold that does the same. Either way, it seems to have no negative effect on fish (based on the fact that many of us have had the same stuff, and it hasn't harmed our fish.)
I'm like you, and I don't accept it when someone says "it just works that way." I always ask "why?" A lot of people on here are like that. It's how we've all learned as much as we have. | Gotcha.
As a total aside, when I added that piece of driftwood, I notice one of my neons wrestling with what looked like a splinter of the wood. After he pulled it off, I realized it was a big, fat, dead bug that was the color of the wood that had been killed by the boiling, but that I'd missed in scrubbing. I'm glad that thing wasn't alive in the tank. Unfortunately, it was too big for my fish to eat, so I had to net it out. | 
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March 19th, 2009
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Originally Posted by meg1220 Gotcha.
As a total aside, when I added that piece of driftwood, I notice one of my neons wrestling with what looked like a splinter of the wood. After he pulled it off, I realized it was a big, fat, dead bug that was the color of the wood that had been killed by the boiling, but that I'd missed in scrubbing. I'm glad that thing wasn't alive in the tank. Unfortunately, it was too big for my fish to eat, so I had to net it out. | Should of taken a pic, Im sure us geeks would have liked to try and ID it. | |
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March 20th, 2009
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Originally Posted by KyWildFish Should of taken a pic, Im sure us geeks would have liked to try and ID it. | haha, I should've! Well, I guess I know for next time! I'll have to get waaay better at taking aquarium pictures. | |
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March 20th, 2009
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| Ive heard the tripod is everything, there are some EXCELLENT threads on here about how some people get really great shots. | |
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March 20th, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| Digital camera's and about 200 bad pics for a couple good shots 
Least that's my system, the digital camera is a must | |
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March 20th, 2009
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Originally Posted by KyWildFish Ive heard the tripod is everything, there are some EXCELLENT threads on here about how some people get really great shots. | Thanks, I will have to look into those. I always manage to get everything but the fish clear.
Trying to think of a way to bring this back to driftwood...
Sorry to derail this thread... | |
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March 20th, 2009
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I forgive you
So obviously freezing isn't going to sterilize the wood... oh well... that would have been a nice and easy way to do it at least  if there's one thing that Canadian weather does really well it's freezing things | |
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