patrickriley2010
Aquarium Advice Addict
Are you breathing in the dust? I never noticed a Chlorine smell and I have worked with it multiple times. When I work with it I put it straight from the bag into a pillow case. Then wash it. Once it us wet dust usually isn't an issue.
It's wet it's Leslie's pool filter sand if that makes a difference. And I didn't do the pillow case step just stirred a couple 1/4 filled buckets and dumped each about 10 times