hi everybody Richelle here from Quebec
Cichlidés, today I am going to show you how to
wash new substrate.
so I was feeling very
inspired this week after meeting up with
my friend Izabella from AquaZone
Montreal, she has her own YouTube channel
and she actually inspired me to start my
youtube channel
every time we meet up  we're always talking and we get so
excited and we brainstorm
and now I'm so excited I wrote a bunch of
articles so this article is obviously
going to be a reference in other
articles that I wrote and I was missing
information about how to do this
so here you have it
now back to the subject
what you're gonna need is a bucket substrate
and a hose that you are going to be able
to plug on to your tap
for substrate the rule of thumb is about 1 pound / gallon of water
so if you have a 50
gallon tank you can buy 50 pounds of
substrate and that should give you a
good one and a half to two inches
depending on the surface of your
aquarium
for those of you who are
curious the one I'm using today is the
supernaturals torpedo beach sand which
is a beautiful white sand that doesn't
raise the pH, so its pH neutral, it's for
our tropical fish community fish and
basically everything so that's not
African cichlids or a reef aquarium so
put the substrate in the bucket and
don't fill it up too much because you
don't want to hurt your back on this so
bring your bucket into the sink if you
have one of these industrial sinks you
can also do it outside with just a
regular house hose that's plugged into
the house with cold water.
turn the water on fill the bucket up and let it overflow
mix the substrate and the water
and to really take out all the dust the
better you clean it now the less cloudy
your water is gonna be later on
if you don't clean your substrate well, all
that dust will go right into your water
when you fill up your tank and it'll be
cloudy
let it go until the water comes
out clear try not to lose all those
little rocks. you can put a little recipient to catch them
it's okay if there's some water left in
the bucket it's going in the aquarium.
it's clean water anyways.
once that's done just put it in the aquarium and
you're ready to go
so obviously I forgot to mention this because I found my packet in the water while I was filling it up
most substrates come with a bio
magnet clarifying product it helps
precipitate all the dust if ever you
didn't clean your substrate well and
your aquarium is cloudy, it's okay, you
can put this product in or just wait and
the dust will settle
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