can you add filter floss to filter socks

[dave48]

Just setting up a new tank and it looks like I didnt rinse my sand well enough and the water is very cloudy. I was thinking of packing my filter socks with floss and cleaning out the sediment that way,. Or will it just clear naturally?

 

[JC1977]

Just use the socks floss probably won’t help all that much for cloudy water. How cloudy are we talking ? Like a gallon of milk cloudy ? It should clear up in a few days but depending on how well you rinsed the substrate it could cloud up again when you agitate the sand bed.

 

[Super Fly]

Just use the socks floss probably won’t help all that much for cloudy water. How cloudy are we talking ? Like a gallon of milk cloudy ? It should clear up in a few days but depending on how well you rinsed the substrate it could cloud up again when you agitate the sand bed.

+1 on this... filter floss is coarser than sock so would not be as effective as a sock. I'd let it be and replace/clean the filter sock often, it should clear up in few days.

 

[dave48]

Just use the socks floss probably won’t help all that much for cloudy water. How cloudy are we talking ? Like a gallon of milk cloudy ? It should clear up in a few days but depending on how well you rinsed the substrate it could cloud up again when you agitate the sand bed.

Right. I wondered if the socks were fine enough mesh to take out such small particles
No not like milk but pretty hazy . I would like to clear as much as possible rather than waiting until it just settles because as you say.. it will cloud up again whenever the sand is agitated

 

[dave48]

+1 on this... filter floss is coarser than sock so would not be as effective as a sock. I'd let it be and replace/clean the filter sock often, it should clear up in few days.

 

[JC1977]

i don’t personally run sand in any of my tanks now for a few reasons but when I did I used the special grade reef sand from Carib Sea and man that stuff was a pain in the butt to rinse lol. But again if you didn’t really try to thoroughly rinse most of the sediment out as you can see it will cloud up your display. Again it’s not the end of the world it will eventually clear up just maybe not as fast as you’d like.

 

[dave48]

I will apply more patience getting It clear than I did when rinsing the sand. The more I agitated it in the bucket I reckon I was perpetuating the creation of sediment!!

 

[dave48]

Makes sense and thanks for the input