Review on 🐠 Premium Natural Cholla Wood: Perfect Decor for Aquarium, Shrimp, Hermit Crab, & Small Pet Chew Toys by Craig Goodman

They are beautiful, offer lots of extra biofiltration surface, make great hiding spots and ladders and look absolutely beautiful. But they need to be soaked before putting them in the tank to drown them out and more importantly they made my tank incredibly cloudy. All of them are covered with a layer of living gel at least 2 mm thick. Pure and white. It took a day for this to happen. Both gel and muddy water. The fish don't seem to mind, but I have tough fish that are used to living in harsh conditions in the wild. After almost two weeks (and a large container of activated carbon directly in the pool), the water is a little clearer and the biofilm on it a little thinner. I probably should have drenched them to death before putting them in the aquarium. Aquarium water from a well-established aquarium that has had some of the substrate removed and placed in a soaking vessel, not tap or even dechlorinated water. So that the biofilm can eat whatever nourishes it. I don't have algae eaters, plecos, ottos, shrimp or even snails so I don't know if it would be any different with something like that in the tank but the only difference I see is that the biofilm gets eaten. I'll post an update when the water clears or if it never clears. Update: They haven't made my water cloudy for a day, but now they're slowly dissolving. Obviously, they cannot withstand standard freshwater aquarium microorganisms.