adding gravel

I got my tank set up and added the stress coat declorinater and realized I needed double the gravel I put in there. Whats the easiest way to get more gravel in there, and why do you have to wash the gravel?

Take out fish and buy more gravel. Put in 5gal bucket and rinse until water gets clear. The reason for this is so the dust particles get's washed away and you wouldn't be waiting 3 days for the water to clear.

philuponthepho wrote:

Take out fish and buy more gravel. Put in 5gal bucket and rinse until water gets clear. The reason for this is so the dust particles get's washed away and you wouldn't be waiting 3 days for the water to clear.

Do you have fish in it already? Also how long has it been up and running? one more thing....What size tank?

cool thanks, sorry I posted in the wrong forum

LOL!!!

no fish, running almost 2 weeks, 55 gallon, do you add any thing els besides stress coat and stress zyme

Non that I could think.

I have a frind who just buys the water from petsmart

Waste of money....all it is is filtered water with a label on it. What your doing is fine and it saves 99%

cool, thats what I thought and you have to lug around all that weight

Well the only thing good is that you get free 3 gallon containers and the mess would almost be eiliminated.

A dechlorinator is a must! Prime is the cheapest per treated gallon.
You don't have to move your fish if you add the gravel carefully.
Did you cycle the tank?

Yeah he has the stress coat water conditions in there already. You really don't need dechlorinator if you aren't getting fish for a week. It evaporates by itself within a few days. Just do the smell test.

The chlorimines don't go away without a dechlorinator.

But the fish shall live!

Actually it dose evaporate over time. But I still put a dash of prime in it.

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen06/gen06449.htm

Bullied!