Flourite Cloudy - How Long?

[djlen]

Shirley, there is an item that people use to fill water beds that looks to me to be very, very similar to a python, but doesn't have the siphon tube on the end. It is a fraction of the cost of a python and would probably do the job for you. If I was looking for something like that I would definitely get the water bed filler and then look around for a siphon tube that would fit on the end.
Len

 

[Starry]

I don't have any problems at all when I refill the tank after a water change. I don't know how big all of your tanks are, but mine being only a 10-gal, I make about 2 or 3 trips to the bathroom with a 2-gal bucket, each time filling it only about 1/2 to 3/4 full. This way I can hold the bucket in one hand, propped on my knee, and hold my other palm right on the water surface, under the stream of water coming from the bucket. It doesn't disturb anything, and my fish like playing in the stream as it flows off my hand. Something to try if you have a smaller thank. I know I wouldn't want to make 10 trips with a large tank though.

 

[Matak]

I am planning to put in 1" of Flourite covered by 1" of jet black gravel. I am going to attemp this feat without a net (meaning I will do this with fish and plants still in the tank). I really don't want to go through the muddy heartaches I've just read about so I have devised a plan:

Step 1- soak the flourite in a big plastic container for a week stirring daily.

Step 2- rinse the snot out of the flourite.

Step 3- turn on vortex filter

Step 4- scoop rinsed flourite into clear acrylic 2" tube that is resting on the existing gravel bed. Said flourite will flow down the tube and ease gently on to old gravel bed.

Step 5- level flourite gently

Step 6- repeat steps 1 through 5 with jet black gravel

I hope

 

[Booswalia]

Matak, you forgot to mention that you'll be doing it front of a live audience.

Please let us know how it works.

I put in my plants last night and things went well. The flourite stirred up a bit but the cloud is gone this morning, so I think I can live with it. My last tank had peat and compost in the lower levels and it would stirr up now and again when I transplanted, but.....not a big deal.

I've been taking pictures, but I think I'm gonna create a web page with the whole process on it.

Ooooh, would that be a live audience too?

Shirley

 

[Matak]

My last tank had peat and compost in the lower levels and it would stirr up now and again when I transplanted, but.....not a big deal.

Mine has the same substrate. Man, it took weeks to clarify. No probs now, only when I transplant.

Looking forward to the website w/pics.

Hmmm. "Live from parts unknown,
The Daring Booswalia!"