New 30 gallon planted tank build.

authmal said:
Wow. If that's all dust from the flourite, it *really* looks like it wasn't well rinsed. I had *nothing* like that with mine. I just had some haziness, not complete opacity beyond a couple inches.

That kind of particulate isn't going to be impacted by charcoal. It's going to be a "rinse sponge out in discarded tank water repeatedly" type thing to get rid of it.
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I got rid of the charcoal and replaced it with the purigen and the chemi-elite. It's already cleared up considerably since this happened. I'll do that that though, but what about the dirt that's sitting at the bottom of the filter where the container is. Also Just for the record,I rinsed that flourite for four hours. The way I did it was I got a five gallon bucket and put a hose at the bottom of it then filled the bucket with the flourite and then turned the hose on. If four hours isn't enough to clear it up then I'm not wasting anymore time on it, lol. I may have jumped the gun, but I felt like four hours was more than enough.

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Wow. I maybe spent an hour. I think the putting a hose at the bottom and letting it flow is where it went wrong. Maybe being Asian is the difference. I'm used to washing rice. You don't just pour water in. You pour some in, swirl it around to get the debris up, pour it out, and put more water in. I used the same technique on the fluorite. It's entirely possibly that, like in a stream, the particulate just gathered in areas where the flow wasn't kicking it up instead of actually rinsing out.
 
Yeah, that's a possibility. Well lesson learned. I'm just going to wait for it to clear up, lol. That's all I can do.

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I do have another question though. I have a tetra whisper 60 that I'm not using. Would it be to much filtration for the water if I used it in conjunction with my aquaclear 70 just to clear the water and have it suck some the dirt out? That way I can continuously clean the tetra out and leave the aquaclear alone so I don't disturb the cycle.

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There is never such a thing as too much filtration. Too much current/flow? It's possible, but that's going to be determined by what's in your tank. I'd clean both, on an alternating schedule. It's not going to hurt the cycle, and it'll help permanently clean out the particulate faster.
 
authmal said:
There is never such a thing as too much filtration. Too much current/flow? It's possible, but that's going to be determined by what's in your tank. I'd clean both, on an alternating schedule. It's not going to hurt the cycle, and it'll help permanently clean out the particulate faster.
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That's a good idea. Once some bacteria forms on the tetra then I will alternate. Thanks for your response. I know I'm asking a lot of questions, but it's been a long time for me and I wasn't an expert to begin with anyway. I'm just trying to get through without losing any fish or plants. I really appreciate all the help you guys have given me!!
 
You don't even have to wait. The bacteria really shouldn't suffer much loss due to rinsing the filter cartridge, aside from whatever grows on the particulate itself. Since you have an AC, you can also clean each individual component on a rotating basis, in addition to the Tetra, as in, clean sponge block, then rinse the ceramic bio stuff, and then rinse the Purigen and whatever the other is pillows/bags.
 
But see what's dirty is the part where the filter media holder sits in not the actual media holder itself.

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Repeat water changes and gravel vacs will clear that up pretty quickly.
 
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