Hi,
This is my first time of using anything other than gravel as the bulk of a substrate and I've just finished washing 3 x 14Litre bags of Akadama (took me 5 hours!!!). After the first couple of sieve fulls I realised that its not possible to swill this around in a bucket until the water runs clear like I normally do with gravel as the clay just keeps coming off so I concentrated on just getting the fine particles and dead roots out.
In case I do this again in the future has anyone got any tips or tricks to make the job a bit easier?
Regards, Chris.
This is my first time of using anything other than gravel as the bulk of a substrate and I've just finished washing 3 x 14Litre bags of Akadama (took me 5 hours!!!). After the first couple of sieve fulls I realised that its not possible to swill this around in a bucket until the water runs clear like I normally do with gravel as the clay just keeps coming off so I concentrated on just getting the fine particles and dead roots out.
In case I do this again in the future has anyone got any tips or tricks to make the job a bit easier?
Regards, Chris.