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A beautiful two color African hardwood for aquariums or terrariums. Smooth surface, textured detail and unique mottled color adds interest and enrichment to habitats. One of the hardest and densest woods available; sinks immediately in aquariums and unlike driftwood, will not rot.
PNWGirl
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2025
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America
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2024
I see many reviews saying this releases too much tannins, but the information card on the product and before you buy say to submerge it beforehand. So I let it soak in hot water for 24 hours, changing the water every time I saw it dark and filing it back with hot water. I then rinsed it for a good minute and put it in. Doesn’t float, released some tannins (which is to be expected) but not as much as it would have had I immediately put it in or not soaked it for at least 24 hours. It looks beautiful, my betta loves it, and I’m now going to buy another one for my other betta because his is smaller and not as nice! Don’t listen to the comments saying it’s not for fish tanks lol. If you soak it enough, it’s perfect.
Remalee
Reviewed in Canada on July 21, 2021
I am very happy with the very shapely piece of driftwood I received. All three photos are of the same piece. There are so many possibilities. (The square tile is 9”x9”.) 😁👍🏼
Matt
Reviewed in Canada on July 2, 2021
Solid piece of wood. Happy with my purchase. I soaked for about a week before placing in my tank with water changes to the bucket
Dorothy
Reviewed in Canada on March 2, 2021
used this to do my topiary and gave it as a gift to our friends. It turned out really nice. Thanks.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on July 8, 2018
Love this piece of wood. Just the right size and it sank to the bottom of the tank right away. The colours are fantastic and it didn’t put too many tannins in the water.
Stephen
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2018
I ordered the medium and I can’t believe the size and quality of this piece for the low price. At a pet store it would easily be 2-3x as much. It’s sort of flat so it came in a padded envelope, small piece broke off in transit no big deal. I was worried it would be like 6” and flat or boring since the medium has no listed sizing. It’s 12” high and maybe 7-8” at its widest. It has the gorgeous gnarled irregular shape - perfect for java ferns and anubias plants like I plan on attaching. Boiling it right now and as expected the water is a deep opaque brown. I’m ecstatic I got such a good piece for $11.50~, not sure how often that happens but like the other reviewers say, so cheap so try your luck.Update: added some pics of my tank with the piece. It looks fantastic IMO. I attached a few anubias, bucephalandra, and java moss with small rubber bands and sewing thread. I cut off most of their roots to promote new growth so they attach to the wood. My juvenile betta fry love to rest and play in the wood cracks and holes. Can’t wait to see how the anubias nana petite carpets the wood - hopefully. Will add another update if successful.The wood boiling was quite a task. I boiled like 4 times for 2 hour durations over 3 days with the wood soaking in the pot in clean water overnight. I have a feeling no matter how many times you boil it will darken the hot water so after the third day when I soaked it overnight in cool water and it hadn’t darkened that I decided to just try it in the tank. It’s been in there 2 days with no staining of the water so we’re all good.
Markos Alexandrou
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2018
I purchased this new wood to help set up an amazonian fresh water aquarium for our living room. The wood that came with the tank was a dark walnut to mahogany color and I was hoping to at least match the tone of that.... This "Mopani Wood" arrived and was BRIGHT orange in color! The pictures on Amazon were much more muted and subtle than what actually showed up! The back side of these pieces are almost black in color and also stand out (not quite what I was going for).... At least they are cool shapes but now I am trying to cover them with plants to hide the garish color!
Some Blue Devil
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2016
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Mark B.
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2013
I liked this piece of mopani wood. It stained the water dark after 6 hours of boiling in between soaking for days, but this was expected. I did get a white fungal bloom. I don't think this caused any harm to my fish, but ever since then my neon tetras have an odd milky growth on them, almost ich-like but ich would have killed them off by now. I don't blame the manufacturer or wood for this, but I cannot rule the wood out as the source either. My anubias nana and java fern all took root very easily and are now happily anchored. It looks very natural in the tank and after a month and a half of it being in the tank the staining is not very evident unless I go an extended period of time without changing the water. This is fine though since tannins are apparently good for the fish. The reason for the 4 stars is because the piece I received was very plain; it was pretty much a straight 10" piece of wood that had been split in half. This is very different from what I was expecting from the interesting shape of the pictured piece.
harold Leslie
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2013
i thought it would be an interesting shape , but was not so , very dissapointing,and as had no use for it consigned it to the rubbish bin.
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