JohnC
Member
Hiya,
After buying another bunch of Redmoor wood (does this actually come from the Redmoor area?) and drooling over the stuff Tom Barr finds by the truckload in the US I got wondering what and where should we be looking for when collecting wood ourselves in the UK?
I've seen the video of George or Dan (i can't remember) diving in a lake for "massive wood" and i've collected dead heather wood for nanos with success. Obviously the draw back is getting the wrong type of wood, too alive, rotten, poisonous, saltly and doing bad things to your tank.
Long time waterlogged wood i presume is better due to it being dead in an anaerobic (without oxygen) environment. There by preventing it from rotting and leaching out the tannins before it goes into a tank. This would be the same for wood found in peat bogs. We know that drift wood can be used but stuff straight from the beach can contain salts and other toxins so would need alot of soaking and boiling before use.
But where? what types of wood? where can we find those lovely mazi style branches just waiting to be collected locally. I'm in scotland for gods sake this stuff should be all around me in these rivers and forests
Thanks in advance!
Best Regards,
John
After buying another bunch of Redmoor wood (does this actually come from the Redmoor area?) and drooling over the stuff Tom Barr finds by the truckload in the US I got wondering what and where should we be looking for when collecting wood ourselves in the UK?
I've seen the video of George or Dan (i can't remember) diving in a lake for "massive wood" and i've collected dead heather wood for nanos with success. Obviously the draw back is getting the wrong type of wood, too alive, rotten, poisonous, saltly and doing bad things to your tank.
Long time waterlogged wood i presume is better due to it being dead in an anaerobic (without oxygen) environment. There by preventing it from rotting and leaching out the tannins before it goes into a tank. This would be the same for wood found in peat bogs. We know that drift wood can be used but stuff straight from the beach can contain salts and other toxins so would need alot of soaking and boiling before use.
But where? what types of wood? where can we find those lovely mazi style branches just waiting to be collected locally. I'm in scotland for gods sake this stuff should be all around me in these rivers and forests
Thanks in advance!
Best Regards,
John