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I'm getting rid of these beautiful pieces of wood from my fish tank, but the only problem was they were staining the color of the water, and eventhough they were treated to be water proof, some water sneaked in. So now i allowed them to dry, but what should i do to disinfect it.
Also in the water their has been many chemicals for the fish, and to treat the water. Would boiling this breakdown chemicals, and kill bacteria. I don't want these wood pieces to go to waste.
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1.2 Leopard Geks
...1.0 High Yellow, 0.1 Blizzard, 0.1 Normal
1 tiger morph crested gecko
2 White's Treefrogs
2.1 Fire Bellied Toads
0.0.2 Red Eared Sliders
Fish:
0.2.1 Parrot Cichlids
1 Upside Down Catfish
0.0.2 Bullhead Catfish
1 Geophagus jurupari
2 Goldfish
3 koi

Herpin since 93'

Use a 10% bleach solution in warm water and let it soak.. Rinse it off and scrub it to remove anything if you wish.. Not sure if it's 10%, don't recall I just use approximates
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1.4.1 Leos
1.1 Beardie
1.0 Burm
0.1 Common Boa
1.0 Bp
0.0.1 Bull snake

put them in the freezer for 48hrs or use bleach both ways will kill anything
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1.3 Leopard Gecko's
1.0 Mali uromastyx
0.0.3 Tokay's(adults unsexed)
1.0 Water Dragon

im always afraid using bleach, or chemicals when dealing with my animals, would a mixture of boiling, baking, and freezing work?
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1.2 Leopard Geks
...1.0 High Yellow, 0.1 Blizzard, 0.1 Normal
1 tiger morph crested gecko
2 White's Treefrogs
2.1 Fire Bellied Toads
0.0.2 Red Eared Sliders
Fish:
0.2.1 Parrot Cichlids
1 Upside Down Catfish
0.0.2 Bullhead Catfish
1 Geophagus jurupari
2 Goldfish
3 koi

Herpin since 93'

Go with the boiling. Boil it for a good half hour if you can. I don't recommend using bleach. It won't kill everything as the other person claims. There are water-borne microbes that do perfectly fine floating around in undiluted bleach. Freezing won't necessarily kill off everything either.
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