If you bake the wood at too high of a temp, you'll scortch the wood, leaving a charcoal residue that will harm your critters. you really only need to wash the wood off with regualt tap water, let dry if your worried about worms or something.



to lighten the color, there is a product highly used in bonsai that makes wood so white, it's like white....fffffff and for some reason, moss seems to really likes to grow there afterwards...must be the acidic levels of the effected wood.



do a search online in the bonsai groups at yahoo or just a search in google.



hope this helps.



Deven

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• Does sterilizing (baking or bleech mixture) change the colors of the wood? - lilroach56, Sun Mar 28 10:18:12 2004
• When you BURN it it does!!!!!!!! - duffy, Sun Mar 28 15:05:17 2004
• RE: When you BURN it it does!!!!!!!! - Sypha, Fri Apr 2 08:29:17 2004
• RE: Does sterilizing (baking or bleech mixture) change the colors of the wood? - neuromantic, Sat Apr 3 02:06:37 2004