Can you use beach stuff ftw?

Question

can you go to a beach, take some wood/stones/slate and come home, boil it and put in an aquarium. i know you do other stuff but just wanna know what you guys do.

Answer 1

i collected drift wood off my beach

first i let it soak in water until it stoped turning the water dirty and then i boiled it, that should kill all the germs and remove the dirt