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mina
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How can I disenfect wood. like that I find in a forest or that has been previously used? Im not quite sure.
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a.
Guest
the safest way i can think of is to soak it in boiling water (make sure no animals attached!!), but why should you use any wood which you think should be disinfected?
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mina
Guest
BEcause, Its hard to find good wood. I have some cool logs/twigs in my back yard and I like them, but who knows what in them.
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a.
Guest
What's in your back yard logs probably depends on what's in that yard... However, normal healthy animals have ways to defend themselves from naturally occuring harm. Be very ware not to present them with un-natural harm resulting from disinfection procedures/chemicals. What do you think?
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mina
Guest
I think so, But I mean, I also dont wanna bring a brown recluese into my house. And the newts I would be using it with arent native to where I live
(Message edited by herptastic on December 24, 2006)
(Message edited by herptastic on December 24, 2006)
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omicron
Guest
i freeze it after a day under water.
A friend of mine boils it....it works really well but kinda takes all the tanins away....i like to have a bit of tanins in my water that´s why i just freeze it.
A friend of mine boils it....it works really well but kinda takes all the tanins away....i like to have a bit of tanins in my water that´s why i just freeze it.
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mina
Guest
None of these will work because I have a pot nor freezer big enough for it...
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jennifer
Guest
You can bake it in a regular oven on low heat. Be aware that baking has some risk of causing an explosion if you bake certain kinds of rocks - but for wood, I don't think that would be a problem.
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coen
Guest
Be on the lookout on a secondhand market for cheap, big pots to boil your wood
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mina
Guest
how long would I bake it? temperatures?
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samuel
Guest
once i tryed and i had to boyled maybe 3 times about 15 minutes each, tmep??? i just putit on the mid-high temperature, and still got a very dark color in the water, but good luck
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dane
Guest
i have a piggy-back question, when you boil it how long do you do it for, untill there is no color going into the water?}
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samuel
Guest
color will come every time you boiled, if you really dont want to get any colour you have to try for about a month boiling it with water changes very constantly, but then your wood would be white too