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Once the wood is waterlogged enough to sink in water it's ready. Boiling it also helps to rid the wood of any bacteria and/or parasites that might be on it. If the wood is too big to fit in a pot, you'll need a container that's big enough to hold the wood submerged in hot water. Unless you're able to keep the water at a boiling temperature, this process is going to be much slower, lasting several months (The natural process of water-logging wood takes about four to six months). Submerge the wood in boiling water and let it sit. Every other day you're going to want to perform water changes, taking some of the old water out, and replacing it with clean, boiling water. As the wood sits in the water, it will release what is called tannins. The tannins won't harm anything, but it does make the water cloudy, so it's best to get rid of it as much as possible before you put it in your fish tank. Depending on how you want your wood to look, after a week or so you should be able to start working the bark off.

Taking off the bark should speed up the process a bit. If you want to keep the bark on, you'll still want to take a hard brush and scrub the bark to get as mush of the loose parts and dirt off as you can. Keep doing the process of changing the water every other day, and scrubbing the bark once a week, for about two or three months. By that time the water should have seeped into the wood enough to make it sink. If it hasn't you can continue, or weigh it down in your fish tank if you want, by then there shouldn't be much more for tannins leaching into the water. I prefer to avoid picking wood that's been in the water already. While it will give you a head start, you also have to make sure you don't bring along any hitchhikers (snails, leeches, small invertebrates). While it takes longer to water-log wood from dry land, simply submerging the wood in hot water should get rid of any hitchhikers there. If the wood you find is small enough to fit in a pot to boil it, then it shouldn't be a worry.