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Haha i actually know this because i bought drift wood you gotta let that soak for like half a month after boiling it with salt then boil it with no salt over annd over untill it stops releasing tannins
I 🤔 there is a 'clear' solution, without the nice brown tint? Used Almond leaves for tannins, 👌effect and benefits for South American dwarf cichlids, really got the Cacatuoides into spawning 😄
I didn't actually realize this would happen after adding drift wood, I just wanted to make sure that it was safe for the fish as it took me off guard this morning after my tank change 😂
I saw the title of this video and had to giggle. People want to get rid of the brown water and here I am buying tons of driftwood, leaves and seedpods to make my water more brown then Tea LOL.
bro... u could just add some dry banana leaves or dry almond leaves or even dry mango leaves to water that you are going to use for the further water changes... it really tans the water.... im using this trick over seven years and my fishes love them... cheap and best..
Thank you for this! I'm a new fish person and have done tons of research on setting up my aquarium properly before adding any fish. I did add driftwood and panicked when the water turned brown, but is still clear. At first I hated it, but the darker look is actually growing on me.. This video was super helpful with explaining! Thanks so much!
Same with me first time with driftwood came to my tank this morning and it’s a brown color.. I was worried at first because obviously it was new to me but I do dig the brownish water as long as it doesn’t hurt my fish
Thank you for the info! I just added drift wood for the first time to my aquarium. I suspected it might be tannins, but didn't know what effects on the aquarium that it might have. My wife likes the darker water look, but I like the cleaner water look. I'm the one who maintains it....so I'll be doing a few more frequent water changes. She can eny the look while it's still there.
Initially it's a little dark, but over time it lightens. I live in a hard water area and some tannin in the water is so beneficial in softening my local water. I actually like the look if you choose pinkish lighting where you can control the spectrum, hygger are good at this. In all, I'm a fan of slightly brown water. I've also found it reduces algae problems too. Indeed, some people even add peat granules in their cannister filters to create the natural look.
In 1 of our betta tanks we were having trouble keeping tannins for long term. We had lots of floating plants and the whole tank is planted so I believe the plants were sucking it up. In a different betta tank that had no floating plants and less plants I noticed tannins lasted longer. When I did water changes I boiled almond leaf tea bags and diluted it with declorinated tap water.
I appreciate the video - btw - instead of staining my bathroom tub - a better idea would be to soak it outside in a trash can. One of those big cans. I live in FL where it’s hot all year - so if I put my wood outside in a big trash can - it would soak up all those tannins and the water stays relatively warm because it’s already 80 degrees here.
I boiled a piece of Mopani wood 6 times. I boiled it for 2 hours, let it cool, drained it and repeated 6 times. Each time lots of coffee colored water was poured out. The last bioling I added a vitamin C tablet, boiled for 4 hours and let cool overnight. You'd imagine after such a cooking it would be fork tender but it was still solid as a rock. It still has tannins but far less. It has not drasitcaly altered the PH.
I've learned to embrace the tannins.. I do a lot of water changes so I don't worry about it too much.. I like the health benefits too.. when I first put my Driftwood in it,was really over powering and I soaked my wood for a week and then boiled it. By accident I realized how good purigen works 😂 when I added it to my filter one time.. right now all I have is my guppies, bettas, shrimp and corydoras... So I believe they all like it 😁 I've been using Indian almond leaves and elder cones periodically too.. thanks for another great video and explaining tannins! I hope you and mrs. Primetime have an amazing weekend... It's about time to see all of her Nano wall again.. I never get enough 👍 much love guys ❤️🙏✌️
Just started my first Cichlid tank (SA), and i have a huge piece of arching wood as the centerpiece, after about 5 days my water was this yellowish/brown color, and i thought i messed something up lol. Your video was the first to pop up, so for that i thank you! I actually do not mind the more natural look, it is a bit harder to see the fish but i think the fish like the tannins like you mentioned.
Useful advice. What is the beautiful cichlid (I think) at 2:30mins with gorgeous blue eyes? Your vids have been extremely useful on a whole range of important topics. Keep up the good work!
Yo thanks for this, I’m new to keeping fish and I was recently upgrading my bettas tank to a more natural tank. (Trying to make the switch to live pants and drift wood, etc.) and ngl I panicked a bit when I put the piece of wood in the water turned brown.
I bought a pretty big root to my aquarium, some synthetic moss prepped with seeds was glued on to parts of the root, it looked really beautiful. And those seeds are growing some nice heart-shaped small leafs. Because of the prepped seeds glued on there I assumed that the root have been pre-soaked or boiled beforehand because it was pretty pricy compared to mangrove roots or similar. But I was so wrong, the day after the tank was so brown that you couldn't see 15cm thru the water... 🤯 I did a 70% waterchange because I wanted to keep some good bacteria that have been growing for a week time. Then I waited another 3 days before I purchased the fish. You can see the background 60cm in, but it's still really brown cloudy. I know it's gonna go away after several waterchanges, but I'm getting greedy. Can I change the water every 2 days or so without harming the fish and plants? The aquarium is 80liters, I have 2 ancistrus, 10 neontetra, 7 guppy and 2 nerite snails :p
Just added two big pieces of driftwood to my 20 tall :), I couldnt boil it, so I soaked it in hot(but not boiling) water in a bucket (while changing it out once a day) for 3 days instead, the last change was just ever so slightly brown but honestly I think it should be fine! I hope my fish like the new hiding spots!
The brown water helped my betta fish so much! I have a bunch of live plants & he was still trying to fight himself.. the brown water makes it so he can't see his reflection as well. 🥰 I was very concerned with how brown the water got. *ended up doing 20% water change the next morning because I couldn't even see with the light on! 🤦🏻♂️🤯 Pleased to know the brown water is beneficial (: tannins 🙌🥰
2.46 top left corner, that's a shellie tank with floaties, right? Brown water for me is awful to look at. I'm all for natural and I don't care for crystal but brown? Nein, nicht für mich! And another thing. If you're really serious about getting rid of tannins, put the wood in the car and drive the car into a lake. For pre soaking, obvs....
If you don't want to stain your bathtub for those big pieces you can go to Lowes\HD\etc and get a big trash can. You can get a 30 gallon one pretty close in size to a bathtub for about $35
My driftwood fit in a 5 gallon bucket, I filled the bucket and changed the water every week, it took 2.5 months of soaking and releasing, and wire brush scrubbing the muck. key is to soak a long time.
@@MorphedWombat I’m so tired of the brown water look… my cage never looks clean especially when I do water changes and makes the water Opaque wish my water would stop doing this but after 3 months it’s still just as strong as when I first added the freaking spider wood…
your tank looks amazing! But at 1:15 i see the floaters and long roots are blocking alot of light, how do your anubias and other plants at the bottom of driftwood deal with that?
Thank you this is helpful, my driftwood turned the water red which I kinda liked cause it looked like a tea stained aquarium but then the next day it turned super dark brown 😂
So I bought driftwood that’s for an aquarium. I boiled it for a half an hour at a time then cooled it and then boiled it again and did this for hours. The wood is waterlogged, but I put it into a 5 gallon bucket and overnight it still turned the water a light brown. When will it stop turning water brown so I can put it in my tank and not have this problem
I'm just now coming back into the fish keeping hobby after a long time, and I'm currently working on a freshwater Molly tank. I currently have a few live plants and two pieces of spiderwood which in turn released tannin into my water, I don't love the look and will be doing frequent water changes to get rid of some of that, but my question is, will the tannin affect the ph of my water? I know mollies need a ph of 7.5 to 8.5 and I wanted to be sure the tannin wouldn't affect that.
Thank you! Ive been wondering whats wrong with my newly set palundarium as the water turned so brown almost immediately. I got my driftwood from dads old aquarium and didnt wash it. Perhaps thats the case because i added all the bacteria and stuff
I have the aqueon 3 gallon filter for my 5gallon betta tank do you think that the carbon in that filter is sufficient? I really like the look of the brown water but I want to make sure it isn't harmful
How long does it take for them to go away? I recently set up a pond and added plants, rocks and a driftwood i had soaked for DAYS. I dumped the water and soaked it again and today when i went to my pond it was kind of murky and brown. Didn't look like that yesterday. I thought algae, thought sediments settling and then I remembered the driftwood. Its my first time doing most of this and first time with driftwood, though I read about the tannins Ive never dealt with them. I took the wood out and put it in a fresh tub of treated water and hope to soak it out a bit more and Im getting a stronger pump for the filter in hopes that will remedy it. Any idea how long it will take to get rid of the tannins? Will the water clear on its own if its not in there? Is there any safe additive to put in the pond to help clear the water? I ws reading reviews on Amazon for some things and half of the reviews were positive while the other had dead fish : ( Any tips on ponds?
@@PrimeTimeAquaticsthanks so much for replying! I don’t mind it so much I guess, seems more realistic, but I’d prefer to be able to see my fishies and their colors (they’re guppies). As for water changes…. This makes me soooo nervous 😩 how do you add water if it’s from a hose or the sink? Do I need to get a bucket and treat it first and THEN dump it in??? I’m a newbie, I’ve only been at this a few months, but I’m also aware of most of the stuff in the sense that I’ve been reading and researching everything. I’m obsessed 🥰
I have boiled my driftwood several times and it's still turning the water brown. It's much lighter than in the beginning but I'm hesitant to put it in the tank as I don't want it to turn my water brown. How do I know when it's safe to add it to the tank?
Now, brown water when it's not drift wood? I have a 40g I use for breeding mystery snails, and after running that tank for about a year and a half without any problems, the water suddenly turned brown and is staying brown. I haven't changed anything in what I am doing, they get the same food as ever, the filters are the same as ever (and get regular cleaning and cartridge changes), it's the same decorations as ever, same substrate as ever, etc. etc. The water just turned brown for no obvious reason. I'm uncertain whether it's harming the snails - there are some that are still doing their snaily thing same as ever, but a whole lot of the big adults have taken to floating all day, which they weren't doing before. It might be they are just getting old, they are all roughly the same age and they might just be at that age (at least 9 months old, which is on the older side for a mystery snail), but I'm not entirely convinced as they really should last at least 12 months, so they should have a few more months in them. I've got baby snails in the tank and they are getting to be big enough to be saleable, so that's a good sign that the babies seem to be doing ok? And unfortunately I do have ramshorns in the tank, who are out of control - I removed about 400 of them in the past 3 days... I hadn't been paying good attention for them until recently so hadn't caught on to how many there had gotten to be! Brown snails in really brown water, mostly hiding in caves and rocks, and the undersides of plants, they really took off! Now I expect ramshorns are more hardy and durable than mystery snails, but for the level of success those ramshorns are having, surely the water conditions, despite the brownness, aren't actually bad? To be sure, the things I test for all come back well within acceptable ranges, so pH is a little bit above 7 (it varies from day to day, but 7.2 or 7.4, in that ballpark); using the API test solutions, ammonia is typically between 0 and 0.25, nitrite similar, nitrate between 0 and 5, usually closer to 0. I'm just utterly clueless to why the water has turned brown or how I am supposed to clear it up, if such a clearing up is actually called for. I feel like the only way to fully clear it up would be to do a 100% water change! And I'm none too eager to do that if I don't absolutely have to. So other than driftwood, what are other possibilities I can consider?
I have a 40-gallon acrylic tank with one goldfish, their tankmate of eight years just passed away, will tanins from driftwood permanently stain the acrylic?
What about a pinkish tinge to water ? It’s mostly clear looking in the tank but put in a bucket it looks pink the only thing I did was lightly flush one of the canister filters it’s got me stumped any help would be appreciated
Currently soaking two large driftwood pieces in a plastic tote in my bathtub… Does it help, or not help to scrub the wood with like a toothbrush as you soak?
So I've added a 6" x 2" cholla wood for my shrimp, and even after boiling it 4 or 5 times it still managed to tint my water quite a bit. Is it normal for cholla wood to do this? So will adding some more plants help clear it up some?
I have a planted 180 gallon tank with a tree trunk and it's roots in the tank. My tap water is high in ammonia so I don't want to do many water changes, I use a sponge filter. Can i put charcoal in a stock and an air stone to get rid of tannins?
Ive had a large piece of driftwood to my 40 gallon about 2 months ago and I still keep getting brown water. Doing my fourth water change. Three plants and no fish (waiting for the water to stay clear)
I soak my in rub maid tub. For weeks at time that way. I can get good Bacteria. Grow on it before add to tank. Just do small water change in tub every week so you don’t kill the Bacteria grow on it. Seems to work well
Jason I have added Driftwood and had the water turned brown which does not concern me this was a great video. My question is I bought spiderwood from the store and put it in my tank the next morning it was completely covered with a whitish clear basically jelly substance I rinsed it off and put the wood back in and it came back what could this be? Thank you
@@PrimeTimeAquatics Thank you very much for replying to my question. It does not seem to be effecting my fish either and i have guppy fry and small plecos. I took the wood back out to soak in water for a bit, see if that helps decrease it because its disgusting looking.
Good afternoon I was wondering how I can clean allergy off the plants and decorations inside a aquarium right to reuse them back in my aquarium your thoughts
Sometimes that can be hard. I know there have been times when I just had to toss fake plants because it would have taken too long to clean them off. You could bleach decorations (10% bleach solution) and then rinse them off?
Any idea why my spider wood turns almost a black color after boiling off tannin and placing in my tank? I need something lighter for this particular build. Any suggestions?
@@PrimeTimeAquatics 02:09 The wood in this tank is exactly what I am looking for in both color and tone. What I am saying is the wood I purchased almost immediately turned black when submerged. May I ask where you purchased the wood from and what type it is?
Can I send a picture? My piece of driftwood had been in my previous tank for over a year, and never did I see my water so DARK as it is now. I do have a new substrate (Landen aquarium soil) that was supposed to not cloud or colour the water. So I am not sure what exactly is turning my aquarium water so dark brownish red.
So, all other reviews about this substrate, people were raving at how clear their water was.. I have no clue what is causing it, and 25% water changes do almost nothing. I'll do a 90%..
Added oak leafs and cholla wood to new used shrimp tank now people ask if I have animals in their? My answer is yup and watch them push nose up against the glass. How do I get nose prints of glass Professor?
