Rinsing dry sand

[cba191]

Is it ok to rinse the caribsea dry sand with tap water? Or is it better to just put it in and let the cloudiness dissipate?

 

[JTP424]

Completely fine to rinse with tap. Run it once through RODI and you'll be golden :)

 

[rtparty]

Rinsing with tap water is just fine

 

[BZOFIQ]

It's a YES all around.

 

[Kooma]

I rinse with tap water until the water left is nearly clear. Then drain as much tap water as you can and rinse one for time with RODI water. After that dump the rodi water and add it. You won’t have the cloudy water if you rinse it enough.

A 5 gallon bucket that is 1/4 full of sand usually take 15 or so fill, rinse/stir heavily/dump cycles to get near clean.

 

[exnisstech]

I always rinse with tap water and if it's a new start up I've never bothered to rinse in RODI. I will rinse in RODI if I'm adding to a running system.

 

[BryanM]

I definitely would rinse with tap and then the final pass with rodi just to be super safe.

I would not dump it in the tank and wait for the cloudiness to go away.... it took quite a while when I did that. Never again.

 

[56longroof]

I just rinsed with tap water and drained off all the water I could. The amount left is negligible and wont harm anything.