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Originally Posted by Borderjumper
Tap water is fine for rinsing.. Rinse really good tho.. Remember that fresh water is killing everything in the sand.. I still would let it cycle for a while to get rid of all the trapped stuff you just made dead with freshwater.. I wonder if your going to use it immediately if it would be better rinsing in saltwater as not to kill everything?
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I could in fact put it in a 45 gal drum after rinsing, put a pump on it and heater (even rins it wit salt water),
run it for 2 weeks while stirring it dayly and maybe even refreshing the water in it each 2 ore 3 days to get as much dead stuf out before introducing it back in the new frag tank ( and I can do the introduction in a gallon eacg few days, covering my bsck several ways