i just filled my ten gal up. Flourite was the substrate of choice since this one was going to be my first planted tank. As i was filling the tank up the water was getting pretty brown. Now the whole tank has brown water in it. I hooked the filter up to stir it up but after 24 hours its still brown. was that bad idea? Any suggestions??
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Did you rinse it out before putting it in your tank? If not, you should have read the directions, and you're probably going to need to either take it back out of the tank and do some rinsing or do a whole lot of water changes.
wait for it to settle down. i never rinsed my flourite. well, i used 5 gallons of water thats it for washing 1 whole bag.
I did the same thing one time. I waited several days with no sign of it clearing up. Just drain the water and full 'er up again. Use a bowl or plate so the water flow doesn't hit the substrate directly.
Next time, your substrate just needs a quick rinse to wash off the residual dust from shipping. If you try rinsing the flourite clean youll be washing forever, and taking away the good stuff.
Next time, your substrate just needs a quick rinse to wash off the residual dust from shipping. If you try rinsing the flourite clean youll be washing forever, and taking away the good stuff.
mine cleared up within 6 hours. i was running a hot magnum on a 10 g though. also i filled veryslowly
yeah directions what are those. lol so lots of water changes later its clearing up nice. thanks all
Flourite drives me nuts! Next time I'll go for onyx sand. My flourite mucks up my whole tank every time I have to replant something. Then it settles on all my plants and all over my beautiful tangled globs of algae in the foreground. Yuck! I was assuming that the growth of a biofilm would ease things as the tank matured, but over a year later it's just as bad!
Great, so much for that. I heard it's supposed to be less dusty. How does it behave when you replant?