I wouldn't worry to much I haven't ever had any bad results from small particles floating around. Some of my fish stir the substrate up more than I would ever, and cloud out their tanks pretty bad. The only reason to wait is if you were really agressively pouring the sand in and lots of particles were floating all over the place. In that case turn off your filters and p-heads and wait a few hours before introducing your fish. GL
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Id personally leave it alone and just let the tank settle down. Check the parameters once a day, make the adjustments slowly. You dont want to shock the fish.. relax
But wouldn't it settle to the bottom? and the fish will just kick it up and make the tank look dirty?zoohouse;2547593; said:
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haynchinook334;2547595; said:
Okay i thought after i wrote that ,thats what bb was but thankyou.
zoohouse;2547593; said:
Okay thanx so much for the advice, The tank doesnt look that bad im going to take a pic right now and post it then mabey you could let me know.
You would WANT it to be stirred up. If you let the small particals settle, it will just leave you in the same spot when you first put the sand in.roombo;2547608; said:
Clean the sand as best as you can, then out it in the tank, then fill the tank 1/2 ways up, if still cloudy, do a 1/2 water change, then fill to the top. only 25% of the water will be dirty. And you can just do a 50% water change with in a week.
I did the water change and left the 25% The frontosa is swimming around now like nothing even changed but the pike is still in the same spot.
thats nice sand
did u add the sand today because mine
took 2 days to clear up and at the start you couldn't see anything
did u add the sand today because mine
took 2 days to clear up and at the start you couldn't see anything
you got something like moon sand. never want to deal with that again. it's like powder in the filter. the pike is happy where it's at.
