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I have read that mold in a new tank is not uncommon. I have little spots of green mold on a piece of driftwood in my tank. The pieces were bought from ebay froma guy claiming they are cypress....If they aren't, and the mold is from another type of wood....how will I know or how long should I give it?

Thanks,
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Matt

How long has it been in your tank?

Im not sure, i personally think it might not be cyrpus if its molding. I got some driftwood from a local lake back in july and neither of those pieces have had mold on them. (i dont know what kind of wood they are either). As an experimant i put in a piece of grapewood and it molding pretty good withen 2 days.

If it keeps molding I would consider taking it out. How often is it misted?

aj
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It has been sprayed once a day for about a week. Thankfully, the wood with the water feature is not molding....hopefully it won't. The guy I bought the wood from said he picked it personally from a cypress swamp in LA., but could not confirm that the wood was cypress....I took a chance.

Do you have easy access to cypress drifwood?
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Matt

I also have a great deal of mold on one of my wood, but its only one of them, and I foamed it on the back of my tank, plus my waterfall runs on it also. It mold toxic to any of them?
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-_^

The cypress drift wood in my tank is molding too. I just finished putting the tank together about a month or so ago and it still hasn't gone away.
hey what ever you find out about it let me know.
ADAM

np
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Matt