Mackloutz
Aquarium Advice Newbie
I recently bought a 75 gallon aquarium with the works, stand, filter, everything, anyways I bought "play" sand and forgot to wash the sand and put it in the aquarium, then of course added the water. I set the filter up that night but did not turn it on. The water was like a milkshake so I decided to wait until morning to start the filter. The next morning I got the filter up and running and it has been running for about 6 hours now with no real significant change. I am concerned with the force of the outake valve because it is fairly great and it pushed all the dirt and debris to the front of the tank. I cannot see through the tank both ways(up, and sideways) so I'm concerned if I made a terrible mistake not washing the sand. I was thinking of getting 2 penguin filters to replace the magnum 350 filter that came with the tank but was wondering if it was normal to have that much debris from the first day. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.