diff --git a/crates/clawhdf5-format/fuzz/.gitignore b/crates/clawhdf5-format/fuzz/.gitignore
index 2f7896d..fe68c97 100644
--- a/crates/clawhdf5-format/fuzz/.gitignore
+++ b/crates/clawhdf5-format/fuzz/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
 target/
+corpus/
+artifacts/
+coverage/
diff --git a/crates/clawhdf5-format/fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_btree_v2.rs b/crates/clawhdf5-format/fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_btree_v2.rs
index 370b2d8..a33b4af 100644
--- a/crates/clawhdf5-format/fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_btree_v2.rs
+++ b/crates/clawhdf5-format/fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_btree_v2.rs
@@ -1,15 +1,36 @@
 #![no_main]
+use clawhdf5_format::btree_v2::{BTreeV2Header, collect_btree_v2_records};
 use libfuzzer_sys::fuzz_target;
 
 fuzz_target!(|data: &[u8]| {
     for &offset_size in &[4u8, 8] {
         for &length_size in &[4u8, 8] {
-            let _ = clawhdf5_format::btree_v2::BTreeV2Header::parse(
-                data,
-                0,
-                offset_size,
-                length_size,
-            );
+            if let Ok(header) = BTreeV2Header::parse(data, 0, offset_size, length_size) {
+                let _ = collect_btree_v2_records(data, &header, offset_size, length_size);
+            }
         }
     }
+
+    // Parsing a header requires a valid checksum, which random input almost
+    // never has, so the traversal behind it went unfuzzed — and that is where
+    // a node listing itself as its own child overflowed the stack. Take the
+    // header fields straight from the input instead and walk the rest.
+    let Some((fields, file)) = data.split_first_chunk::<20>() else {
+        return;
+    };
+    let header = BTreeV2Header {
+        tree_type: fields[0],
+        node_size: u32::from_le_bytes([fields[1], fields[2], fields[3], fields[4]]),
+        record_size: u16::from_le_bytes([fields[5], fields[6]]),
+        depth: u16::from_le_bytes([fields[7], fields[8]]),
+        root_node_address: u64::from(u32::from_le_bytes([
+            fields[9], fields[10], fields[11], fields[12],
+        ])),
+        num_records_in_root: u16::from_le_bytes([fields[13], fields[14]]),
+        total_records: u64::from(u32::from_le_bytes([
+            fields[15], fields[16], fields[17], fields[18],
+        ])),
+    };
+    let offset_size = if fields[19] & 1 == 0 { 4 } else { 8 };
+    let _ = collect_btree_v2_records(file, &header, offset_size, 8);
 });