The other thing I love is this is the only vendor on our list that offers truck style driftwood. If you know anything about nature aquascape, truck style driftwood offers amazing forest like backdrops. All the pieces they offer are giant pieces. Make sure you take your measurements on your aquarium before purchasing. This is the some best quality driftwood you can buy online.
It has a high price tag as a result and expect slower shipping times due to their size. Bonsai driftwood offers a unique looking background in your tank. With the proper plants attached to it you can truly get a forest like look in your tank. These Bonsai Driftwood pieces offered for size are amazing looking in your aquarium. They have the added benefit of lowing your pH and softening your water, making them ideal for the vast majority of planted tank setups.
Bonsai trees cans be different to aquascape. They require a high amount of touch not only to get the moss down correctly, but also to keep them well groomed. If you are up for the challenge and want something stunning, this could be the wood piece for you! Backed by a quality brand name, this Mopani wood are high quality specimens that will show off in your display tank. The Fluval name brand enters our list with their Mopani Wood product.
This is the same Mopani Wood you saw me explain earlier, but backed by the Fluval name. The result is you get high quality specimens that are well picked by Fluval. They offer both small and large sizes so you can find the right size for your aquarium in their selection. The only thing I do not like is the Mopani wood itself. Mopani is notorious for its tannin leeching.
Take your time to prep this wood and have your carbon ready if you want to use this driftwood. They are great looking pieces if you can handle the tannin leeching.
A throwback to the old bogwood setups. Koyal is a name brand and offers driftwood at competitive prices. However, these pieces are also great for aquariums. This product from Koyal reminds me a lot of the old bogwood pieces that used to be offered at fish stores. There is also a Grapewood Branch variant that is offer that looks more like the the other driftwood pieces on this list.
Given the popularity and supply of the product, they are offered at a competitive price. The major complaint with these have been the wood takes a long time to water log and there have been shipping mishaps. If you are looking for budget driftwood these pieces from Hamiledyi are what you are looking for. They are ideal for smaller tanks and the pieces have good variation. The price is very reasonable and wood is lightweight. Hamiledyi does not state the origin of this driftwood. From what we know from the review this is a high tannin count wood.
It is likely this wood is a variation of Malaysian Driftwood, which is a common wood found at local fish store. Expect to sand down edges to make it smooth to the touch. If you are looking for wood for a shrimp tank, this is the product to buy. This Cholla Wood by NiloG is a great buy.
It is cheap and your shrimp will love you for it as they feed off it all day. Cholla is not for every fish tank. It decays fast and needs an inhabitant that will happily eat it while it decomposes.
This is why they are ideal for shrimp like Cherry and Amano Shrimp as they will scavenge off the remains. There are two things we want to do to prep our driftwood for aquarium usage:. There are two options two achieve both. One would be soaking the driftwood. This takes a long time, usually weeks. Boiling would be our next option and the preferred way of prepping our aquarium driftwood.
The video below by Long Island Fish Guy illustrates the process. When boiling, you want to boil until you the water in the boil pot is clear. You will also want to utilize carbon media to mitigate any residual leeching of tannins afterwords. If you have a large piece of driftwood, you can boil it in sections boil.
Put what you can fit in your pot as you go. If the wood is very large, you may have to consider the soaking method. One thing to note is Tannins do have benefits in an aquarium. My preference is to purchase driftwood with low tannin count like Manzanita or Spiderwood. This helps with ease of prep and keeps your aquarium clear of that tea color.
Attaching live plants to your driftwood really makes your aquascape come alive. There are two type of live plants that are ideal for attaching to driftwood. For moss, you can use super glue to attach the base of the moss to your driftwood. Below is a great video by Roma Aquatics that shows how to do this.
What I love about attaching plants on wood is you can do this outside of your aquarium and take your time with it. The next video by Fishaholic shows how to attach a column feeding live plant to driftwood. This example is Java Fern. You can do this with any other column feeding live plant. I prefer this method over fishing line or tiebacks since glue is invisible and easier to work with in my experience.
Driftwood adds a lot of beauty to your aquarium. I hope through this post I was able to help you make an informed decision on what the driftwood you want to purchase for your aquarium. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments below. This is on the grounds that its character and examples must be perceived from a distance. Corkscrew willow creates a stunning effect with its thin and stringy branches. If they are free of bark and cleaned, you can use it.
Buttonwood is an astounding addition to moderate aquariums. Linden Tree is a very uncommon and rare driftwood that shows stunning outcomes in your aquarium. If you want to get this type of driftwood, you have to be vigilant to get the pieces from professional driftwood curers mostly. Sumatran driftwood is harvested from dead mangrove trees in Indonesia and Sumatra during land clearing.
The root is collected from the wild, dried and sandblasted to remove the bark. It gives the wood a smooth, attractive look. Typically it is used in big freshwater aquariums as a centrepiece. Bogwood is easy to work with. Basically, It looks like a submerged stump or branch and looks nice in just about many aquascape designs.
You may need to soak smaller, non-weighted pieces of bogwood to get them to sink. Bogwood is famous for leaching tannins into the water. So, it needs to be cured properly.
Redmoor root wood makes a thick tangle of smaller than usual roots that fish love to explore. The tangle of sensitive roots looks simply like tree roots originating from a waterway bank. It makes a genuine three-dimensional centre point to the aquarium.
The wood has a ruddy tint that adds an unobtrusive vibrancy to the aquascape without causing a lot to notice itself. Redmoor root wood tends to drift. A few pieces become water-logged following two weeks of restoring. Marsh root provides a striking centrepiece to the aquarium.
This driftwood is popular in Europe and is sometimes available in North America. The wood has been altogether splashed and matured submerged. Saba Wood is a profound, dynamic brown coloured shading.
Additionally, it has a dazzling unpretentious streaking all through the wood. Saba wood has a smooth, nearly wild ox horn style surface.
The vast majority of the wood sold for aquariums resembles a stump with small fanning. Jangle Wood resembles a blend of extended driftwood and stump. It's frequently connected to piece of slate to keep the stump upstanding. It can have a dull shading or a faded appearance. It's most appropriate for larger aquariums as a centrepiece. This driftwood has a pale tan appearance and darker brown colouration. Each piece is diverse fit as a fiddle. Tiger Wood is exceptionally stretched yet not thin or spidery.
Most pieces sold for aquariums are huge or extra-huge. You can join plants and greeneries effectively to this sort of wood. Pacific Wood appears to be comparable to Malaysian driftwood.
It has a similar texture to Malaysian driftwood yet with a lot more bunches, tangles and complex character.
Pacific Wood has different sizes and shapes depending on aquarium sizes. It may release tannins that create the water discolouration. Boil it before applying to your aquarium to reduce this effect. Tree Root Driftwood is a completely natural driftwood similar to Bonsai trees, Tree Root driftwood is smooth and tan coloured with a more open appearance. They are preferable to use with mosses, Buceplant and Anubias.
It needs to be soaked properly and conditioned to sink it. Grapewood, a beautiful driftwood, supports mold growth. You can buy sandblasted grape wood it with polyurethane. Bonsai driftwood comes in various design, and aquascapers love it all over the world due to its immense showpiece appeal. Most aquarists pre-attache the bonsai driftwood to the rocks before setting-up the aquarium to give one of the best driftwood with variable immense colors and views.
Cholla Driftwood is a beautifully designed and styled driftwood which is difficult to obtain because it is expensive. With the hole-like structure, it can be differentiated from all other driftwoods.
It is native to the Southwest, and as long-lasting driftwood with more solid varieties, it is truly the dried remains of a cactus succulent. It is one of the reliable driftwoods for fresh Shrimp Tanks and has a moderate tannic-acid count. It is difficult to find, so I will advise you to buy it immediately if found at a low price. It takes time to soak. Usually, it takes around two days to sink as it keeps floating in the aquarium.
That is why it decays in the aquarium over time. It takes a couple of months or maybe up to two years to be decayed. Mopani is a tree in the legume family Fabaceae that grows in hot, dry, low-lying areas and comprises two-tone color mixtures.
It lowers hydrogen ion concentration and gives a high phenol count. It is changing into a well-liked wood for marine museums as larger aquarium brands are commencing to sell it in their stores. It is a Sub-Sahara tree by structure, which makes it readily available in the wood-market.
There are several uses of this driftwood such as aquariums, household material, and music instruments. Mopani driftwood has a thick structure with dark knots. It is an excellent grained wood with all sorts of fascinating nooks for fish to hide in and live plants to attach.
It also has unique colors with a two-toned pattern. It altered the chemistry of water over time and moderating pH towards acidity. That is why Mopani driftwood is considered the perfect driftwood for Raincoast and biome tanks. Spider driftwood is documented for its varied branched look.
It is found in Mongolia, and it resembles a dead spider, hence the name. It maintains a beautiful Mahogany color in the fish tank.
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