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RE: Newbie Design (week 2 update) - rinsing red Flourite
- To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
- Subject: RE: Newbie Design (week 2 update) - rinsing red Flourite
- From: "Katherine Yata" <k_yata at hotmail_com>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 22:15:21 +0000
I haven't ever rinsed flourite, it does sound like lots of 'fun'. I have
planted pond plants in my clay soil and moved substrate from one tank to
another without washing it. My water isn't crystal clear the next day but it
clears and stays clear in a couple days.
To set up a new tank I put the unwashed substrate in the new tank. Fill with
water, doesn't have to be full. In one corner lower the level of the
substrate to the glass and drain all the water out of the tank at this
point. Repeat til it looks like the water might eventually get clear as in
it looks more like dirty water than mud. Last time the substrate was two
years old and I filled and dumped twice. You are taking out the smallest
particles each time. I then planted the tanks and vacumed the drifts of mulm
that were on the surface.
Anyway, siphoning out and refilling a tank is a lot faster than waiting for
an overworked filter to clear a tank.
Kathy in southern California
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warhau" <warhau at austin_rr.com>
Subject: RE: Newbie Design (week 2 update)
OMG Flourite Red is nasty stuff.
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The tank looked like it was full of 120g of chocolate milk
afterwards. It
dissipated overnight (with the help of two Eheims and two big
Emperors), but
the substrate became covered with a thick layer of fine silt
which plugged
all the cracks between granules and made the floor look like one
smooth
homogenous surface. I tried to vacuum it, but the water quickly
became too
cloudy to see again.
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If I let it go, will the fish eventually cause the silt to
settle down
further into the substrate, so it isn't so much an issue
anymore? Should I
take it all out and rinse it better? If I leave it and plant,
will a fine
coating of Flourite dust hurt the plants (other than making them
nice and
red, and blocking out some light)?
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