kellymegan18

Last night I purchased flourite to replace to gravel in my established plated aquarium. I rinsed it a little bit before I very carefully added it to my tank. Its been 12 hours now and my tank still looks like a stirred up river bed. Its terrible. I can see a layer of dirt forming on everything, but for the most part it is too murky to see anything. What do I do??

LuvaBetta

From what I've read about fluorite, it needs to be rinsed about 1000000 times. Can you pull it out and rinse some more?

kellymegan18

I exercise patience (something I was not born with) and on day 2 it is looking a lot better. By tomorrow I expect it to be perfectly clear. I just rinsed my filter 3 or 4 times a day and put in some de-clouding drips. I usually research everything I do to my tank before I do it but for some reason I decided to just dump this stuff in. Oh well! Thanks!

sirdarksol

I wouldn't use the de-clouding stuff, but other than that, it sounds like things are going normal for fluorite. The stuff is a pain, even if you rinse it a dozen times. However, once it's settled down, plants just love the stuff.