freshwater sand bottom help

[freshwaterfishing]

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

Thankyou, ya i added it like an hour before i posted the pics, i was really suprized at how it settled so fast.

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.

Ya for about an hour we kept hearing the filter make some funny noises, but waking up this morning everything is quiet and everyone is out swimming around.

 

[Tom500]

Ye give it a wash it creates a horrid scum on the water if you dont and there are sometimes other things mixed in there too i found a couple of worms in my 25kg sack of sand and a piece of plastic lol and that was proper bagged sand for marine tanks not the crap stuff so id wash it. Better sage than sorry there is a lot of dirt that comes out of it when you eash it so ye wash it!

 

[freshwaterfishing]

Ye give it a wash it creates a horrid scum on the water if you dont and there are sometimes other things mixed in there too i found a couple of worms in my 25kg sack of sand and a piece of plastic lol and that was proper bagged sand for marine tanks not the crap stuff so id wash it. Better sage than sorry there is a lot of dirt that comes out of it when you eash it so ye wash it!

Ya it was all washed before putting it in.

 

[CHOMPERS]

the guy in the store is a moron, I think. Why do you have to wait 3 days to settle if it is clean?

wash it in a bucket, your fish should be fine.

The only way to sum it up ^


Clean sand won't cloud the water when it is poured into the tank. The problem is that most people are way too impatient to properly clean the sand.

 

[freshwaterfishing]

Ya its not cloudy at all, we cleaned it preety good.