i just bought some pea gravel fom Home Depot for my 120g and i was wondering if i needed to do anything else to it besides rinsing it off? this is my first venture without using aquarium gravel and all i do with that is rinse it. I know you are supposed to boil rocks you find in your back yard, the big ones but should i have to do that with these?
Gravel from Home Depot
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I do this all the time! They are going to be very dirty!! You are going to need to really wash them. The best way is take a screen door off your house lay it out side spread the rocks out on it and sprays with a hose to get majority off. Then get two buckets work better if one is a cooler and the other a buket. Put four or five double hand fulls in the cooler and swish around blasting with the hose. Up down as may times as it takes for that water to get clear! Will take quite a few times! Repeat the process over and over until they are all clean. To do a bag useually takes me about 20-30 minutes you wast a lot of water but you save a lot on rocks!
This is all you should have to do. Just dont ever buy two types they offer there. They have a green and a red colored rock that is powder coated and in time it will come off killing your fish! Other than that you are all good I do this all the time good luck
This is all you should have to do. Just dont ever buy two types they offer there. They have a green and a red colored rock that is powder coated and in time it will come off killing your fish! Other than that you are all good I do this all the time good luck
You might want to soak a sample in water for a week, testing pH at the beginning and end as at least one types is acidic.
and I thought I was dumb by buy home depot rocks all the time. I washed them for about 2 hours for two days and I m straight.
Most of my tanks have pea gravel in it from Home Depot and Lowe's. I also just use a strainer to clean the rocks out. Usually end up doing a gravel vac a couple days later, cause I can never get all of the dirt off.
It's an easy way to save money on a monster tank.
It's an easy way to save money on a monster tank.
man you americians are so lucky! we have to pay so much for our good sands and rocks at our LFS 
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