got some flourite!

[timwag2001]

but i didnt rinse it off well enough and now it looks like i have 55 gallons of guiness..

i'm gonna post some before and afters and some inbetween pics as i go along.

 

[enadeau12]

it'll go away. give it time

 

[timwag2001]

how much time? i'm worried about my plants that i have to replant

 

[mgamer20o0]

a few days for it to settle down. could always do some wc's. its really dusty and should have been washed.

 

[timwag2001]

is it bad for the fish?

 

[timwag2001]

before destruction


excuse me bartender... something is swimming in my guiness

 

[timwag2001]

starting to clear up a little


i cant wait to start putting the rest of my plants in there

 

[Sharkrocket72]

wow that is really bad. when i put mine in it was dusty but that is a blackout. id do some pwc's then let the filter take care of the rest.

that second pic looks like mine did when i first put it in. Id just let the filter take care of it from here on out.

 

[mgamer20o0]

not harmful but just hard to see. just do some more wcs with gravel vacs to suck the dirt out.

 

[FastFly67]

well if it tastes like guinness GRAB A STRAW

 

[timwag2001]

it was very tempting

 

[timwag2001]

i lost some fish. i lost a checkerboard and a double red. the only thing i can think of is that they might have gotten stuck under the flourite.

should i try to dig them out? if thats where they are they've been buried for a day.

 

[FastFly67]

once when i was doing a PWC, i was gravel vacuuming and moving it around pretty good. after the change, i was counting fish and noticed one was missing. i did some digging and one of the fish had gotten stuck under some rocks. dug him out and he's still alive and kicking!

 

[timwag2001]

how long was he buried?

 

[FastFly67]

how long was he buried?

10 or 15 minutes maybe?
either way, you're going to want to find them dead or alive. decaying dead fish in a tank is not a good thing

 

[timwag2001]

so i found one of my fish $18 loss. my $6 dollar loss is mia.

so i just finished doing some planting. kicked up a little more dust. it's coming along though. here's the latest pic