Hi, I have just purchased some organic garden soil and as soon as I got home I realised it had plenty of tiny woodchips throughout it, I've researched and looked around and I've seen many sites mention "avoid the use of soil with woodchips as a substrate". 

My question is: if I used this as the bottom layer of my substrate (1- 1.5 inch) with a cap of gravel (1- 1.5 inch) over the top would it cause any dramatic effects to my fish/plants besides floating pieces of wood?

Thanks fishtanktv :)

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The only thing wood chips will do to your tank is the same thing that happens web u put drift wood in your tank with out soaking it.   It jus turns your water a bit brown is all. 
The thing that helps which i forgot to mention is if you really are iffy about the wood chips just swift your dirt you can get most if not all wood chips out like that

Thanks for the reassurance, Pedro. I've talked to a few people now and they've used woodchips without a problem to their plants/fish.. The only thing they mentioned is that the woodchips may float out from underneath the gravel messing your tank a little.

Thanks again, Choof

You could put you soil in a bucket fill it with water. Stir the soil with you hands and what a little all the worships will come floaing. That's what I did to my dirt.

On my second dirt tank I did something a little different.

I found an old screen and more or less screened the whole bag of MG Organic.  Came out with a fine, almost powder like, dirt.  Worked great!  No twigs, no rocks, no other debris.  Just good ole dirt.

I watered it down a bit, tossed it in, capped it and boom... clear water in about 6 hours.  Of course I stuck in my DIY Filters and it was fairly easy, fairly clean, pretty darn fast.

Serrecko

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