Mugwump's Fish World

A friend and I went collecting driftwood. We went to a dam in Wisconsin to find some nice natural driftwood. Found some nice pieces, not really what I was looking for,nothing with a wow factor. also found a nice piece of granite. some of the wood is over 4 foot long with the longest being 6 foot. I'm going to "cure" the longer pieces in a salt bath when I feel up to it. But I did cut some pieces down so I could boil them. It smelt so nice in the house. Once again I was in trouble for my fishy stuff. but I did get some nice pieces for the 40b.
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I just got the new wood in the tank. the big chunk has a hole all the way through it. and it still doesn't sink after boiling it for 5 hours. I'm letting it sit in the tank for a few weeks to see what it's going to do. I don't want to find out it's bad wood and there's fish in there. This way I can easily tear apart and clean the tank if need be. 
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Looks nice.....you can always anchor it to a piece of slate beneath the sand...

If it doesn't sink on it's own I'll anchor it and hide the anchor. For now I'll let it sit. I'm more interested to see what the wood will look like in a few weeks. I'm also going to start working on the 3d background see if I can pull all this together.

Quote from: b125killer on June 14, 2015, 08:06:53 PM
If it doesn't sink on it's own I'll anchor it and hide the anchor. For now I'll let it sit. I'm more interested to see what the wood will look like in a few weeks. I'm also going to start working on the 3d background see if I can pull all this together.

How much room front to back with the back wall installed??

Quote from: b125killer on June 14, 2015, 08:06:53 PM
If it doesn't sink on it's own I'll anchor it and hide the anchor. For now I'll let it sit. I'm more interested to see what the wood will look like in a few weeks. I'm also going to start working on the 3d background see if I can pull all this together.

I'm anxious to see your tank when you get it all together.  It's going to look so cool.

There's about 3.5 inches from the back wall to the background. Just enough room to fit my hand in.

I'm a little aanxious to get it set up myself. I still need to patch some of the background, also want to get the wood to sink before I get everything together.

Quote from: b125killer on June 15, 2015, 06:54:09 PM
There's about 3.5 inches from the back wall to the background. Just enough room to fit my hand in.

I'm a little aanxious to get it set up myself. I still need to patch some of the background, also want to get the wood to sink before I get everything together.

What I really was wondering is how much room you have from the front of the wall to the front glass..???.....how big a piece of wood will fit and look right??

From the center there's about 13 inches, from the side there's about 5 inches. There's plenty of room for more wood. I'm thinking of putting anubias in there for the plants.  I have a led light on that tank that isn't good for plants. Plus the anubias will look good on the wood.