sap in driftwood

[Angelfish11788]

found the DW of my dreams. out in the woods, ok bark is off, I scowled it, then i baked in 350 for 10 minutes. after baking it sap came from several places, I have it soaking now. Is there anything to do to get it to stop this wood is the bees knees. should i bake it some more, till it all oozes out. This is going in a wild caught native tank, I do know they are less supseptible to disease but still. ANY HELP

[Dennis Bissett]

Never had sap come out of driftwood before, but my guess would be to cook it some more to try to solidify the sap

[Gesp56]

Can you put pics of the wood up?? DW really shouldn't be leaking sap and the only DW i've seen that's done that is pine wood, and as far as I know pine wood isn't safe for aquariums.

[~firefly~]

I have boiled red moor bogwood and within the first few weeks you can get sap oozing from it. It's not unusual.

Here's what mine looked like:




(see the grey oozing part)

It just wiped off easily and the filter broke up any free floating parts. It wasn't toxic in any way.

I cannot speak for other wood types though.

[Gesp56]

I'm not sure if it would work. But possibly baking the wood and leaving it in dry conditions. Maybe baking it for a period of time, at high temperatures, once a day for a couple weeks? Idk something like that could work.

[Angelfish11788]

its to hard for pine, well thats what my dad said, idk if he was right, i will pic it in a few, def dont wanna kill my natives

[Angelfish11788]

only good pic were it is dry

[Limming]

Doesn't look like pine. Some short of hard wood though, I'd assume that since the tank is going to be a native from the same area you found it in it'd be fine.

[Angelfish11788]

not sound like an idio but what is the phrase, short of hard wood, meaning its not hardwood and yea my aunt lives a few miles ffrom lake and this is were i got it.

[funkman262]

not sound like an idio but what is the phrase, short of hard wood, meaning its not hardwood and yea my aunt lives a few miles ffrom lake and this is were i got it.

Looks like a typo and was meant to say "some sort of hard wood".