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Does your Mopane wood rot?

treefrog_calgary
18 years ago

Hello forumites,

I have a new tank with a large mopane log in it and it's rotting. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep it in the tank. I have to do partial water changes everyday. The tank is still cycling but every day seems too much.

It first grew a white jelly-like stuff all over it (the wood), and then started to smell bad. I was scraping it off yesterday and in the process, one of my fish died, I'm not sure what the precise cause of death was, but the tank was full of floating white gunk from the Mopane. I managed to get all the fungus? off and the water is now "clean" but still smells a little. I'll keep up the partial WC.

Should I keep it and see what happens or should I throw it out. Any advice would be great.

Cheers

Rodrigo

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