Have you ever had a piece of driftwood that just will not sink?
Today I am going to show you a tip I learned that helped me TONS! With some simple lead fishing sinkers, you can secretively weigh down the the wood without visual changes to your piece of driftwood.
Some types of wood sink immediately such as Malaysian Driftwood. Some take days to weeks to sink in fish tanks as well such as spider wood, manzanita, etc. Then theres other driftwood such as oak that can be very difficult to sink in the aquarium.
This tip helped tremendously in aquascape designed aquariums so I could still keep the wood looking natural without having to screw rocks to the wood, put rocks on top of the wood, or tying the wood to rocks to keep it submerged, all of those options can really take away from your aquascape design for weeks even months.
Lead is not damaging to the aquarium either as lead doesn't break down in water. It is often used to weigh down plants in throughout the hobby.
The way I choose to seal the weights in with gel super glue and sawdust is purely to make sure the weights cannot fall out allowing the wood to float up yet again.
Drift wood adds tons of character to a fish tank, and having the ability to make amazing pieces that normally float, sink in the aquarium can absolutely change the entire basis on how you can design your aquarium.
One great place to get driftwood is Driftwood Outlet! They have some very unique styles of driftwood that can be difficult to sink in the aquarium. This is how I control this situation and make the driftwood sink in the aquarium.
Do you have other tips on how to get driftwood to sink in aquariums?
I would love to hear about your experiences in the comments!
Thank you for watching! I hope this helped you solve floating drift wood in your aquarium!
