Back in the day.......

[KipperSarnie]

When I first entered fish keeping back in the late 60's when only spiders used the web & an I-Book was a diaryI
Cork Bark was in every planted tank.
OK so it released a lot of tannings & even weighted down it would easily launch like a missile from a sub but it looked fantastic if you got it right.
I've found a supplier of the sizes I need for an idea to rescape my Trigon 350.

Any thoughts please?

 

[HiNtZ]

As my mate would say "it weren't like this in '96!"

Me personally, I think floating cork bark with Monte Carlo/Cuba on it would look mint

 

[foxfish]

I love cork bark, I use it for various things, I like the tubes you can buy, some are quite huge!
Reptile stockist seem to be the best place to buy cork bark.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Cork Bark was in every planted tank.

I love cork bark

I still like it as well.

cheers Darrel

 

[Tim Harrison]

Oh goodness, now you mention it, it reminds me that I used it in my scapes way back in the day as well...as a small child in the 70s
That and huge lumps of bog wood were about the only scaping materials on sale in my LFSs.

I remember it lent itself quite well, by way of it's natural curvature, to tray type structures, which I wedged in my aquarium just under the lighting hood as cover for my fish and in which I tried to grow mosses, semi-emersed, from the garden lawn...as far as I can remember it wasn't a great success

But on the other hand, cork bark cut in to broad strips was an excellent natural looking background.
'Oh, those were the days'...he said staring in to space with a somewhat nostalgic goofy grin...

 

[three-fingers]

Being full of air...would cork bark not rot quite quickly under water? I've used cork bark in vivariums and paludariums, never really thought of using it submerged because it is so buoyant, seems like such an awkward thing to use to me!

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Being full of air...would cork bark not rot quite quickly under water? I've used cork bark in vivariums and paludariums, never really thought of using it submerged because it is so buoyant, seems like such an awkward thing to use to me!

Cork lasts pretty well under water, it is high in lignin so doesn't really decompose much.

It is pretty buoyant, so you have to really wedge it in.

cheers Darrel