100% Flourite or 50% Flourite with 50% black sand???

kev wrote:
On 12 May 2005, the world was enlightened by Elaine T's opinion about...

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Seachem says you can use 50% Flourite and still get the benefits. I
have yet to find anything that keeps Flourite from clouding except time.


Easy. You wash it. Alot. :O

I use a colander, a 5 gallon bucket and a garden hose. Think of panning
for gold. The dust will rinse off. Eventually.


kev

I washed my Flourite in a basket until the water ran clear. I ran
gallons and gallons of water over it with the garden hose. Next I dried
it competely (that's supposed to help), put it in the tank, and filled
ever so carefully with a slow trickle onto a plate set on the the
Flourite. I STILL had to water polish.

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On 13 May 2005, the world was enlightened by Elaine T's opinion about...

kev wrote:
On 12 May 2005, the world was enlightened by Elaine T's opinion about...

snip

Seachem says you can use 50% Flourite and still get the benefits. I
have yet to find anything that keeps Flourite from clouding except time.


Easy. You wash it. Alot. :O

I use a colander, a 5 gallon bucket and a garden hose. Think of panning
for gold. The dust will rinse off. Eventually.


kev

I washed my Flourite in a basket until the water ran clear. I ran
gallons and gallons of water over it with the garden hose. Next I dried
it competely (that's supposed to help), put it in the tank, and filled
ever so carefully with a slow trickle onto a plate set on the the
Flourite. I STILL had to water polish.


It took me five hours to wash two 7kg bags of the stuff. I hardly had any
suspended material at all. It was nothing like the red soup I had the
first time I did a tank with flourite.


kev

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After some tedious washing, I finally managed to get the flourite to run
clear in the sink. I used a plate and my python to fill the tank slowly. I
found the tank to be slightly clouded but cleared up within a few hours only
I put my aquaclear to work.

Phil..

It took me five hours to wash two 7kg bags of the stuff. I hardly had any
suspended material at all. It was nothing like the red soup I had the
first time I did a tank with flourite.


kev