GFO made water cloudy. Should I be concerned?

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I just added 24ml of Seachem Phosbond to my 20g tank. Despite rinsing it, it still made the water cloudy. Should I be concerned? I am running GAC, so will that help clear it up faster?
And it’s cloudier than it looks in the photos.

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IME it will do that no matter how well rinsed especially if tumbled or too much flow. Change your filter socks and they should clean it up. Usually, I run GFO in a reactor and run the out flow into a dedicated filter sock in the sump which catches the particulates. Carbon is not going to do anything for that.
 

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