I just purchases some flourite and I keep rinsing it and there is still a lot of dirt and dust. Should I keep rinsing? or am I washing away all the nutrients?
How much should I rinse seachem flourite?
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Wash it til you think your hand is going to fall off, change hands and rinse until that one feels like it is going to fall off, then rinse some more 
Dangerdoll
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you're never going to wash away the dust completely, the trick is getting it to a minimum.....and that takes a long time.... and just when you think you have a handle on it, you will put it in the tank and fill the tank with water.... and there will be so much.... it will settle though.... don't worry about washing the nutrients away, the nutrients are well within the chunks
I would rinse it a few times. and quit. put it all in your tank, scape it the way you want it. then get some dishes/plates/ plastic boards, whatever you can fit in your aquarium to cover the substrate. the idea is when you fill it up with water, you try to disturb the substrate as little as you can. then remove the plates/dishes/etc and run your filter >
it'll all clear up within a day.
it'll all clear up within a day.
I rinsed my fluorite really, really well (I dont know another way to describe it) and when I added water to the tank I noticed little free floating particles. Granted, I used a lot less per tank volume than I'd assumed most people would...