oops! fiance didn't rinse the gravel

aya336

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So for my birthday my fiance went out and got me a beautiful 47 gal corner tank and I came home to it being all set up... It was a little cloudy but I figured that it was nothing...I was up a week and still very cloudy (he didn't put fish in there...he knew better then that).
I had dropped some of those plant bulbs from walmart into the tank and 2 of the began sprouting. I went to anchor the plants into the gravel when poof! a huge mud cloud came from the gravel. Now I've been vaccuming the bottom of the tank and multiple buckets of brown water and I'm still at a loss.

What do I do? do I have to break the whole tank down and start from scratch?

*facepalm*
 
Seachem Flourite? is that the substrate?

if it is it...i would stir the heck out of it to get your water extremely cloudy, do a 100% water changge, refil, plant, then cycle your tank (link to some good cycling information is in my signature in case you need it)

if it is something like eco-complete no rinsing is necessary.


-chris
 
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Seachem Flourite? is that the substrate?

if it is it...i would stir the heck out of it to get your water extremely cloudy, do a 100% water changge, refil, plant, then cycle your tank (link to some good cycling information is in my signature in case you need it)

if it is something like eco-complete no rinsing is necessary.


-chris

It definitely started with an F so I'm doing the water change now and hopefully it'll work.
Thanks
 
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