Just added play sand wate realy merky

[bbq1234]

i just added sand and bought 3 plants i washed the sand really really really good and put it in the water is really cloudy and brown.. how long will it be b4 it goes away

 

[Max]

did you taek the water out or just pour the sand in with the fish and water in too??

oh boy...

 

[bbq1234]

just pouerd the sand in Whoops is that bad???/

 

[bbq1234]

man its preatty merrky

 

[LadyMinion]

You'd better do a water change - that sand won't do your fish and filter any favours while it's floating around.

 

[FishManiac987]

did you just trun the bucket over and dump it in or did you put cupfuls in. I did mine with fishes, I just turned the filter off for a while while the sand laid down. And then next morning it was okay, and by the time i got home in the afternoon it was clear.

 

[bbq1234]

weell at first i did it by cup fulls then i dumped the rest of the bucket in i turned on the filter after like an hour now im letting it sit w/the filter on

 

[cometcattle]

I kept doing water changes till mine ran clear. But I relocated the fish. It took quite a few water changes for me. I didn't want it to mess up the impeller on my HOB filter.

 

[smithrc]

did you wash it - or just add it?


I washed mine in an old dustbin ander high pressure (nozel on hose pipe) for about 30 mins.... pooring away the water from the top while it was still mirky - so i poored away the very light 'floaty' bits of same...

I then added it to the tank and filled her up - no murkyness at all.

 

[Teelie]

When I did my sand it wasn't murky at all. Only a tinted light cloudiness that quickly went away. Of course I didn't use Play Sand so it doesn't really help much.