my 1,000th goof

[JMorris271]

A few weeks ago I washed 80 lbs of Carribsea sand that was supposed to be already rinsed. It wasn't. But I washed it anyway for 4 or 5 hrs so good and clear running that Sk8er would have be impressed.
Three days ago I decided to add one more bag. Something called me away for a while. When I returned I opened the bag and immediately dumped that 20 lb bag into the 120 gal that I had just spent 2 days filling with RODI water. Is there anything I can do besides dumping out the whole tank

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[ZeeSparrow]

I'd just wait.

 

[JMorris271]

Would it be better to hold off on the power heads? I just added ammonia to begin the cycle.

 

[homer1475]

just leave it be, it will settle, eventually.

 

[Deftones2015]

Leave it and let it settle or if you have a reactor, fill it with filter floss and run that for a while. That helped mine when I changed my sand bed. A friend went out and bought a diatom filter for tanks, but those are expensive plus you have to buy powder to put on the filter.

 

[jayball]

Run your powerheads and skimmer. The dust will get, to some extent, skimmed out.

 

[billdogg]

If you have a canister filter stuff it full of ( polyester pillow stuffing) filter floss and run it for a few days

 

[JMorris271]

I have no filters in operation yet and am just beginning to set things up . At this time, I have rock and sand in the tank. I do have a hob filter or 3 waiting to crank up for the QT's. I might run some floss sheets through the tank real slow and see what that does. What do you think?