hameen40 Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 I"m starting to setup my first 30g. I prepared the saltwater mixture (specific gravity 1.024). After I added 30lbs of agronite to the water the water became murky and sediments starting floating up and sticking to the side. I scooped out as much of the dirty stuff as I could. Is this normal or should I have cleaned the agronite first? Link to comment
dickie52 Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 No big deal, it will clear. I always like to wash my agronite, in a strainer, with water before I use it. Any reason you didn't use sand? Link to comment
koj11 Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 Aragonite is sand. Also, you want all those tiny little pieces in your sand. Better to not rinse in my opinion. Link to comment
hameen40 Posted December 10, 2003 Author Share Posted December 10, 2003 Thanks for your replies guys. I plan on using the agronite sand and today I will add 15lbs of live sand. I'm hoping this would seed the agronite. Few more questions, the bag of live sand has water in there. Should I add the sand in with this water or should I drain out that water first? Secondly, I bought a coral life 6 deep hydrometer. On the instructions it says to let it fill up then bring it out and place it on a flat surface to take the reading. However, if I take it out and read it the reading is different from reading the hydrometer submerged in water. The reading is always 0.001 more when submerged. Any ideas which reading is more accurate. Link to comment
2manytanks Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 add it water and all... i never could get a consistent, accurate reading with those swing-arm things....bought a refractometer ($40) one o the best investments i've made.... i don't think .001 will be catastrophic to your tank, your SG fluctuates more than that from evaporation.... Link to comment
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