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I find my compacts easily enough to not cloud up the water ... but doesn't feel like mud if when I'm moving some plants around .... IMO ... just perfect for aquariums.
No and no. You could add laterite below it if you wanted... that bad part is the cloudiness that laterite and flourite give off, for what looks to be a long time, every time it's disturbed.