Mike Adams wrote:
> So, did this message appear funky to anyone else (in appearance, not content)? Are you playing with the font button, Roy????
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> Mike
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> At 07:38 AM 11/3/97 -0700, you wrote:
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> With all these replies on the driftwood subject we haven't heard from anyone that had a bad experience with it. Most driftwood is just sun bleached dead wood. The good stuff like what you get from them folks down in Alabama is submerged wood. I hav
e never heard of salt in the wood before but I guess if you are getting it out of the ocean then you have the salt. Most wood is toxic to some face=Arial size=2>degree. I would say that an irritant is a better way to describe it. Some are affected buy the
dust more than others. Some woods contain a high amount of silica so you can get silicosis from the dust of the wood but it is not toxic to the fish. I have used a lot of different wood to get different looks because each wood has its own color under wat
er. Walnut is nice if it doesn't have any of the white sap wood. It gives you a nice Brown color. The iroko is a nice red and pine gives you that nice brown/gray color. The harder the wood the more suitable it is for the aquar!
ium.
> Pine dissolves quickly and things like walnut will last a very long long time and will dissolve very slowly. If you doubt the piece, put it in a 5 gal bucket with a goldfish and see what happens. Just like anything else when keeping fish, when you
use wood you need to keep up on the water changes. If you dont change a lot of water then dont use the wood. Roy Hunter
> Co-Chairman
> ANGFA of North America
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> Michael F. Adams, Jr.
> University of Kentucky
> College of Engineering
> Kentucky Transportation Center
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