Mac's Riverwood

[Totenkampf]

I am looking for some log type DW for a scape i am planning and saw this stuff under the All Living Things petsmart brand. the riverwood is sandblasted and dense, so seems like something i could use. does anyone know what kind of wood it is or if it has been treated with microbial agents? google didnt give me much...

[sunkenmetal]

isn't that stuff for reptiles and birds etc...

[Totenkampf]

thats what they sell it for, but wood is wood unless they did something to it. they are nice pieces but i did find one post where it was mentioned that they might be treated with a chemical for microbes

[sunkenmetal]

I wouldn't think so since birds chew it and stuff.

get a piece and boil the piss out of it and test in a QT tank with some feeders or something

[sunkenmetal]

All the info I have read says it is heat treated...

[Totenkampf]

dunno what that means with respect to the wood, its definately been blasted since i had no bark and was smoothe. im thinking it may be okay but who knows. i didnt really want to buy a bunch of it if i had to test it

[sunkenmetal]

I am guessing that when they say heat treated it has been baked in a kiln to get the water out.

[Totenkampf]

maybe so, or to kill any critters. its still hella dense though. almost like ironwood.