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Boy, what a pain in the butt to wash. I was setting up a 5.5 gallon and wanted to do low light wiht crypts so I decided to use flourite. I is a pain to was but I found a trick that I thought I would share. This was my first experience so first I rinsed it some and then gave up becuase it would not come clean and was making one heck of a mess in my tank. I didi tis with half the bag. But it in the tank, let it sit and filter overnight and stil cloudy and messy. What did settle, just stirred back up wiht any disturbance of the gravel.
Next try, I took the other half of the bag and put it in a 2 gallon bucket. Put bucket under faucet in tub and used a paint stirrer in my drill to stir it gently. Took about 10 minutes of stirring, letting the water run for a minute and then dumping water and starting again. Be carefule not to turn on the drill to high or you will suspend the flourite and cause a big mess in the tube. Signifigant others get very upset when this happens. So, to make a long story short, you can get rid of pretty much all of the dust if you use a paint stirrer and running water. !0 minutes or so and there is absolutely no cloudiness from the new gravel.
Hopefully this will save some others needless pain and suffering.
Next try, I took the other half of the bag and put it in a 2 gallon bucket. Put bucket under faucet in tub and used a paint stirrer in my drill to stir it gently. Took about 10 minutes of stirring, letting the water run for a minute and then dumping water and starting again. Be carefule not to turn on the drill to high or you will suspend the flourite and cause a big mess in the tube. Signifigant others get very upset when this happens. So, to make a long story short, you can get rid of pretty much all of the dust if you use a paint stirrer and running water. !0 minutes or so and there is absolutely no cloudiness from the new gravel.
Hopefully this will save some others needless pain and suffering.