Start Cycle?

[Shunopoli]

So I just put my dry sand and dry rock in. It's still a little cloudy. Can I go ahead and put in my bacteria and ammonia source even though it's still cloudy from the sand?

 

[brandon429]

yes it wont harm at all. the silt just swirls around till it settles due to bioencapsulation or its removed by various filters depending on setup. *if you have a small tank, take it apart and rinse the sand before you set back up, save big headaches on rearranging work later on etc.

 

[Shunopoli]

yes it wont harm at all. the silt just swirls around till it settles due to bioencapsulation or its removed by various filters depending on setup. *if you have a small tank, take it apart and rinse the sand before you set back up, save big headaches on rearranging work later on etc.

So I pre-rinsed the sand before putting it in. I have red sea 250. It's been probably about 17 hours and still cloudy as heck. How long does it take to settle? Also the dry sand i put in they didn't include that packet that is supposed to help

 

[brandon429]

it wont matter after X amnt of time, ranges among tanks.

bioslicks will cover them eventually and settle/ running a nice high micron canister filter + some carbon w help too.