Red Moor Wood

From what I read on the web it does sink eventually and you can speed up the process via soaking it in a hot bath or weighting it down with a rock. 

I bought the red moor wood on 1 March. It is now 10 March. The wood is in my quarantine tank (18 x 10 x 10 inches) and it just fits so it's not a big piece. I've been weighting it down with a piece of rock.
I've changed the water twice since I got it, the first time when I moved the plants into the main tank sometime last week (forgotten which day  ) and today. It now stays submerged by itself.

However, I read about this wood getting covered with white slime, and this piece certainly has. The water was very cloudy, which is why I emptied the tank, wiped the slime off the inside of the glass and refilled it. I'll wait a bit longer before putting it in the main tank, see if the slime diminishes. The same site that mentioned the slime also said that some fish will eat it, but I don't know if that applies to any of my fish 

Just so anyone else buying redmoor wood gets an idea of timescale:

I bought this piece of wood on 1 March. It took a week and a half for it to sink, but then the water started going cloudy. It would be fine for 2 days then get so bad I could hardly see the wood. This happened at every water change. Last week (the 21st) I put a small filter in the tank filled with filter wool, and it hasn't gone cloudy this week, so I put it in the main tank at this morning's water change (28th). It still has that white gooey algae that I've read grows on it but I also read that fish will eat it. I'll have to wait and see if they actually do....

The red moor has been staining the water slightly - in the 25 litre QT the brown is barely noticeable after a week so it'll be more dilute = less obvious in the 180 litre tank. I can live with that shade of brown 

The white gooey algae has gone. It's been gone a while, I just forgot to update this thread 

The one remaining amano shrimp and the honey gouramis have spent ages nibbling at it. Yes, I have got another pair of gouramis 

What are used in some countries are the twisted and knotted roots of old grape vines which have been uprooted. I gather they can make some very interesting features. As with all wood, it should be very dead and dried out before going in the tank, leaving it outside for a year or so to weather is recommended.