Friday, May 21, 2010

Cloudy fish tank because of Plant substrate?

I have plant substrate that i used in my 30 gallon aquarium and it reaches about 3 inches up.


Before placing the plant substrate inside my tank, i rinsed it out, and it took a really long time to rinse it out, atleast an hout..


I placed the substrate back into my fish tank and added water..


It was still cloudy!





Was it because while adding the water it was going down too quickly?





This was about 6 hours ago, and now its a bit clearer but still very cloudy, and by looking at the bottom, theres a lot of dust on the top of the substrate.. if i were to move my hand through the tank, the dust would go back up and be very cloudy again








What can i do to prevent it from being cloudy?





Thank you

Cloudy fish tank because of Plant substrate?
wait until the "dust" settles. then take a 1/2 in tube and start a syphon into a 5 gallon bucket. run it just above the rocks. This will pull a lot of this muck out. There are also "vacuums" you can attach to the hose so you can go deep into the rocks without sucking the rocks up.





Good luck.


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