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Soaking a root
- Thread starter Jaap
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Dave wants nano
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Just as long as it take. Some time it's a day, some as long a a week I'm afraid.
PARAGUAY
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Totally depends on what type, bogwood soaked a week or two,Horn Wood is said to sink without, if its something like Azalea Root or Sumatra I try to use rockwork in the tank to wegh it down to speed up the process
There's a "short-cut", sometimes usable - especially if you are in a real hurry: suction-cups !!! 
- you screw on suction-cups where the wood meets a glass-surface. This includes, very preferable, suction-cups where the wood sit on the glass-bottom of the tank (so you need to plan, before adding anything to tank). Suction-cups placed on parts of wood above substrate/gravel level, should ofcourse be placed, so they are as little visible as possible. Any suction-cups, that just can't be hidden totally, can be camouflaged quite effectively by Anubias, Microsorium or moss - or a combination of those
- you screw on suction-cups where the wood meets a glass-surface. This includes, very preferable, suction-cups where the wood sit on the glass-bottom of the tank (so you need to plan, before adding anything to tank). Suction-cups placed on parts of wood above substrate/gravel level, should ofcourse be placed, so they are as little visible as possible. Any suction-cups, that just can't be hidden totally, can be camouflaged quite effectively by Anubias, Microsorium or moss - or a combination of those
PARAGUAY
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Looks nicely shaped to try Micks sucker/s holding to glass or carefully placed rockwork perhap tied with fishline
Unfortunately the damage has been done. I did not think of this beforehand and while I was filling up the tank the root floated. So I added a piece of rock to keep it down and I will have to wait before removing the rock. I can't do much since the tank was planted and it was being filled up for the first time.
PARAGUAY
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There is another method which my be one for any future scapes .Not one I have used .Drill a hole in a flat piece of slate driftwood tied to slate and then slate hidden under substrate,looks quite a good method for very twisty,spindly root
I've done this before too but also screwed the slate to the wood, make sure you use stainless steel screws though..
