dirty dirt.

Ltrepeter2000 · Post by **Ltrepeter2000** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:40 am

Neilan

I was referring to Jen, you are too far gone....she lives around the corner from me though so she has no excuse.

neilanh · Post by **neilanh** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:37 am

Oh - haha, didn't know that.

Cristy Keister · Post by **Cristy Keister** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:15 pm

I didn't rinse the SMS at all. Too much trouble. It was so dusty I had to wear a mask or get black lung.

Filled the tank with water, let it sit for a day or two without filter, then gravel vacuumed a bit. Turned on the filter and all is good. Sure, I get a bit of a dust cloud when ripping out a large plant, but the filter takes care of that in less than an hour. I know the pain of rinsing Flourite. I'll never do it again.

Ltrepeter2000 · Post by **Ltrepeter2000** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:26 pm

For those of you that were at the meeting at my place the last time it was SMS that we used as a substrate without rinse so it didnt create much of a cloud but it was heavily planted by the time the tank was filled

DonkeyFish · Post by **DonkeyFish** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:59 pm

Wow. Lookie at what I started.

I get the message. Cease and Desist on the rinsing! Something tells me the more I was stirring it up in the rinsing process the more silt it was creating. I imagine eventually I would have come to the C&D conclusion....

eventually....

maddog10 · Post by **maddog10** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:28 pm

Not rinsing actually works. I rinsed Flourite for hours trying to get it clean and still ended up with cloudy water. Kris told me to forget about rinsing, so I didn't rinse when I set up the next tank and only got a tiny cloud that went away within 2 hours.

Ltrepeter2000 · Post by **Ltrepeter2000** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:39 pm

http://www.gwapa.org/articles/february2007/

SMS tank is at the bottom of the meeting synopsis.

dirty dirt.

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