Cypress and Cedar wood: bad for frogs?

[UncleChester]

My usual go-to reference for vivarium wood: Caudata Culture Articles - Wood in Vivaria

He mentions Bald Cypress, Taxodium distichum, as being the safe exception.

edit- hah! Beaten to the punch by a few seconds!

[Ira]

Hi, I just moved and in need of some froggy-friendly wood. I have some stuff coming, but it's still in the middle of the ocean. Looked at the article above, but the only other thing readily available in the area, that is not on either lists (meaning lists in the above article of "good" and "bad" woods) is poplar. Anybody knows about poplar?...

I have a bunch of frogs that are not purely water frogs, but need both some land and good amount of water, so I keep them in large tubs outside and make sort of multilevel "tables", which they use for both climbing out of the water onto the top level and diving under the bottom level. Right now they should be hibernating underwater outside instead of sitting in small boxes inside. But I can't find appropriate wood. Before, I used some well-seasoned, soaked and aired-out cedar, and it was OK. Here I don't know the area and don't have anything that's been sitting under the weather in the yard for a while. Also, during hibernation they're fully submerged for a long period of time, and I wouldn't be able to tell immediately if there were problem. During the warm season, I'd notice immediately if something were not quite right.

Anybody knows where one gets ash in Ventura county, California?...