Driftwood comes in many different shapes, sizes, and types. It gives a very natural look to your aquarium and can be used to anchor certain live plants. You can find planted driftwood as well, which already has plants anchored to it. If you are planning on anchoring plants, you may have to tie them with fishing string to the wood until their roots dig in. This is necessary due to the fact that live plants naturally float.
There are many ways to clean the driftwood, but I will only mention the one way that has worked for me.
The first thing to do is to use a hard scrubber and scrape away all the debris. Next, drop the wood in a bucket of hot water for at least 2 days, while replacing the water every 12 hours. You may use an aquarium friendly dechlorinator. If you do this for one week, you can be assured it is safe to add to your aquarium.
The Ph of your aquarium may fluctuate if you do not go through this process thoroughly, which could be dangerous to your fish. A Ph test kit is strongly recommended while adding driftwood to your aquarium.
You can also pick up peices of driftwood from nature, but be extra careful as contaminated peices could easily kill your fish.
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