soaking wood in pool?

Sounds okay to me, but, there may be other chemicals in the pool, but if you treated it the way you said with chlorine removing products, then it might be ok. I would also let it dry out in the sun for a few days, the stronger the sun is shining, the better IMO.

Most people just soak the DW so it sinks...

Pools add another group of variables, personally I would just boil it or bake it to kill whatever is in it.

All you want s to poison your fish by accident.

-Andrew

id love to boil or bake it, but its too large for the oven, dishwasher or a pot, so for now im just soaking it in the bathtub


edit: after poking around a bit online, it seems as though this may not be chemically feasible, to treat pool water with just a chloramine bond breaker, due to the fact that the chlorine in the pool not only makes chloramines but other compounds such as hypochlorous acid, and i really dont feel like experimenting with that on my fish

Soaking it in the pool imo is a bad idea because it will stain your plaster. Unless you have a fiberglass or vinyl pool, in which case vinyl tears very easily. Im not sure about breaking the chemicals in the water down after youre done, but I work on pools for a living, and plasters are easily stained. Leaves, acorns, twigs, etc. all stain it fairly rapidly.

will it fit a big plastic container? you could pour boiling water over it.