Driftwood, bogwood, or neither

B-2 · Post by **B-2** » 04 Dec 2005, 03:16

I have wood in my aquarium that came out of my pond. I can find it in the mud and just laying around in the shallow parts . It is a large pond, Around 75-100 feet across and 7-10 feet deep at the deepest and it was enlarged around 50 years ago. It is mostly spring fed but there is a small stream at the beginning. The large pond is attached to a smaller pond (30-40 feet across, 1-3 feet deep with an unknown depth of muck below the water) so it forms a figure 8 with the small pond emptying into the large. I get the wood from the large pond. The wood has probably been there no longer than 50 years, (since when the pond was enlarged, older wood would have been dug up) and no less than 10 (a lot of the wood is partly under large rocks that were placed there 10-12 years ago. There is no bark on the wood, it is fully waterlogged, and it is dark brown when I find it but is a bit lighter after a good scrub. It doesn't seem to leach an exessive amount of tannins. The pieces seem to be roots or branches. My question is, what would I call this wood? It isn't driftwood since it doesn't drift, and it isn't bogwood since it didn't come from a bog. Is pondwood

a proper name for it? I have been wondering for a long time what it really is. I don't know what to call it. I can't call it driftwood or bogwood and be correct since it doesn't fit their specifications. Does anyone know the answer to this mystery?

natefrog · Post by **natefrog** » 04 Dec 2005, 08:09

You are trying to hard to label something that is just what it is...waterlogged wood!! Sounds like it would be great for an aquarium. With such a need to name things, you would probably make a great taxonomist!!!

B-2 · Post by **B-2** » 04 Dec 2005, 14:57

natefrog wrote: With such a need to name things, you would probably make a great taxonomist!!!

Thank you for saying that.

I am still trying to decide what to go to college for (I am in high school) and I want to do something with animals or nature so now I have an other idea. My most recent idea was to be a fish doctor or something to do with fish. Maybe I can go out and search for new species or something.