hermit crab wood?

fishboy · 01-19-2006, 05:19 PM

Well if you've kept hermit crabs you might have used this stuff. It's a natural wooden cylinder which is hollow and covered in holes on the outside. Can i boil it and use it like bogwood? I think little fish would love it because it's wide enough for small fish to swim right through and even in and out of the holes. I'll try to find a picture for you guys who've never seen it

fishboy · 01-19-2006, 05:22 PM

proper term is choya wood or something here's a picture that looks just like mine but shorter plus mine has several very large holes while this one only has smaller ones http://www.hermitsupply.com/images/c...item.155.m.jpg

leveldrummer · 01-19-2006, 07:42 PM

not sure if you can use it in a tank, but it would look very cool if you stand it up on end, kinda like an old dead tree trunk.

flamingo · 01-19-2006, 08:17 PM

You probably can use it but it may be very hard to get it to sink, if it will at all.

When I saw that stuff it look like it was very lightweight and a person I asked said it never really sinks.

I would just get some driftwodd if you want my opinion lol.

fishboy · 01-19-2006, 09:17 PM

I've made it sink, i just forgot to boil it so it fouled the tank. I just put some gravel in it and it was fine, never left the bottem unless it removed the gravel. You can also just silicone it to a thin glass or acrylic sheet and bury the sheet under the gravel

flamingo · 01-19-2006, 09:23 PM

Well yeah if you put gravel or something big on it, I was talking about it sinking by itself.

Oh well..lol

micstarz · 01-20-2006, 01:41 AM

I've seen them in a tank at my dad's colege friend's clinic, I dont know him well but he seemed like a responsible fishkeeper to me.

Fishboy I think it would be better for hiding a heater.......

01-19-2006, 05:19 PM	#1
fishboy Custom User Title Join Date: Feb 2005 Age: 17 Posts: 1,656	hermit crab wood? Well if you've kept hermit crabs you might have used this stuff. It's a natural wooden cylinder which is hollow and covered in holes on the outside. Can i boil it and use it like bogwood? I think little fish would love it because it's wide enough for small fish to swim right through and even in and out of the holes. I'll try to find a picture for you guys who've never seen it __________________ It is only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything

01-19-2006, 05:22 PM	#2
fishboy Custom User Title Join Date: Feb 2005 Age: 17 Posts: 1,656	proper term is choya wood or something here's a picture that looks just like mine but shorter plus mine has several very large holes while this one only has smaller ones http://www.hermitsupply.com/images/c...item.155.m.jpg __________________ It is only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything

01-19-2006, 07:42 PM	#3
leveldrummer something like a pimp Join Date: May 2005 Location: atlanta Age: 29 Posts: 1,933	not sure if you can use it in a tank, but it would look very cool if you stand it up on end, kinda like an old dead tree trunk. __________________ The meek shall inherit the Earth. Big deal. By the time they get it the rest of us will have messed it all up.

01-19-2006, 08:17 PM	#4
flamingo One Word: Croutons. Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wisconsin Age: 17 Posts: 1,899	You probably can use it but it may be very hard to get it to sink, if it will at all. When I saw that stuff it look like it was very lightweight and a person I asked said it never really sinks. I would just get some driftwodd if you want my opinion lol. __________________ If you put "u" instead of typing out the actual, shocking, three letter word... i'm not going to read your ramblings. I'm so behind it's not even funny.

01-19-2006, 09:17 PM	#5
fishboy Custom User Title Join Date: Feb 2005 Age: 17 Posts: 1,656	I've made it sink, i just forgot to boil it so it fouled the tank. I just put some gravel in it and it was fine, never left the bottem unless it removed the gravel. You can also just silicone it to a thin glass or acrylic sheet and bury the sheet under the gravel __________________ It is only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything

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01-19-2006, 09:23 PM	#6
flamingo One Word: Croutons. Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wisconsin Age: 17 Posts: 1,899	Well yeah if you put gravel or something big on it, I was talking about it sinking by itself. Oh well..lol __________________ If you put "u" instead of typing out the actual, shocking, three letter word... i'm not going to read your ramblings. I'm so behind it's not even funny.

01-20-2006, 01:41 AM	#7
micstarz Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Hong Kong Age: 14 Posts: 658	I've seen them in a tank at my dad's colege friend's clinic, I dont know him well but he seemed like a responsible fishkeeper to me. Fishboy I think it would be better for hiding a heater....... __________________

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