Seachem Flourite Planted Substrate Review
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2021
- Seachem Flourite Planted Tank Substrate Review. I give all the info you need on Seachem Flourite. This substrate does feed aquarium plants. How to rinse Seachem Flourite is also a debated topic I talk about. Price compare Flourite versus competitors like Fluval stratum or eco complete vs Flourite.
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Rinse as much as you can - it won't "rinse away" the nutrients. The "dust" is just pulverized substrate, usually at the bottom of the bag because the bag got picked up and dropped or stacked so many times in transit. Think of how potato chips get smaller and there are more crumbs at the bottom of the bag; it's the same idea. If you don't rinse, this dust will just get caught in your filter or settle, annoyingly, on the top of the substrate and cloud up your water during the next water change, so you'll be getting rid of it either way. Seachem advertises Flourite as "pre-rinsed" as a sales / marketing tactic, kind of like "pre-seasoned" cast iron. It may be, but you should still do it yourself.
How many times did you rinse it?
You have gave me great ideas! I’m definitely going to start a cheese ball aquarium.
So I have an aquarium that I used Seachem Flourite in. I didn’t think the rinsing was all bad. You gave me a good idea using a bowl to rinse it. I think it would go better than the strainer method I used. Anyways I like this product. I have a heavily planted aquarium and the plants have flourished. I also like the look. I am setting up a new tank and have made a decision to use this. All the aquarium soil is so confusing. I just decided to go with what I know. Your setups are beyond great!
You have valid observations . Thx for making videos.
If I had a dollar for every time you said 'literally', I could literally afford a bag of seachem flourite.
Hahahaha your literally right
I started with Fluvel Stratum and a few tanks later I have always stuck with it. Thanks for sharing your opinion on this...all the best.
stratum is fine as long as you need low ph. otherwise youre fucked. I have stratum in a nano and i cant get the ph over 5, my tapwater is 7.2...
Well Chris...I appreciate your honest review. A lot of people give it good reviews just cuz of the name, or cuz someone else said it was good. Phht! FYI...i think think all your planted tanks and surrounding houseplants look awesome! 👍🐛🍄
I’m really glad I purchased this stuff, I really can’t agree with your review but I can understand your position. I’m completely new to plant keeping but I couldn’t be more proud of my results
Is this substrate a good buy? Did u have to add fertilizers or anything or was the substrate enough for the plants?
@@jadonramlogan4639 so it’s been 2 year since I got it and I used a small bag of pond fertilizer at the back of one of the tanks and it made no difference for me than using just the substrate in another tank, I have not switched it out or added anything to it in that time and it’s still going beautifully
@peachpanda96 so the substrate by itself is enough then
Cause I saw a vid that said this substrate just absorbs whatever nutrients you give it (fertilizers, waste products) and releases it for plants to use
And kinda skeptical on it now
The houseplants and tanks in your dining room are beautiful!
Also the drywall screws and zip ties are great solutions!
The thing with clay substrates is the more you manipulate it the more cloudly the water will get.
You want to rinse it a couple of times without swishing it around, then put in tank and fill slowly, then do two big water changes and it will be mostly clear.
Love the no bull 💩reviews , great video 💯👍👍
I have used Seachem Flourite on a few tanks. You dont need to rinse it if you cap it off with sand or at least 2 inches of another gravel. But if you clean you substrate dont go too deep or you will mess up your tank with clay dust. But it is great for planted tanks I have found, as long as you know how to deal with it.
I love that on the back of the seachem fluorite bag it says it is prewashed but "it may become dusty in transit" 😂 oh yeah? More like the thickest dustiest substrate fart clouds ever. I love the final look of this substrate, but it is hands down the messiest of the more expensive substrates that I've used. Fluval stratum is way easier to work with, imo, and I'd paid more for less mess. I'm currently trying out seachem fluorite to see if my plants prefer it to stratum.
I am setting up a 40 gallon corner tank (old "all glass aquarium" set up - in oak).
I choose three substrates for this tank: sand for cories, pea-sized river gravel, and Seachem Flourite. Guess which substrate needed tons of rinsing and clouded up my tank? Any guesses, lol?
I have a little ten gallon filter I can easily replace clearing the water as I type. It will stay in the tank until it is aqua scaped, topped off with water, and the tank is clear again. Then I will put in the forever filter and heater, and let the tank cycle.
I expect the Seachem Flourite will add a nice color warmth to the tank (the Flourite I have is brick red). But it was a pain to rinse and install. So much silt!
I hope it will make my fish and plants happy, as it adds variety to the tank. But I don't think I'll use it again, knowing what I know now.
Wow, just following your channel, maaaan your house is amazing!!
I have fluorite. I put it in a 10 gallon, covered with water about 1” above substrate, planted Dwarf Hair Grass, let the DHG Get established for about a month, filled tank completely with water after DHG covered bottom. No issues.
Chris I'm in the UK and have jbl manado. the shop told me it's the best. don't know if yous have that brand in USA. but same deal as the video loads of rinsing and it still clouds the tank up and then there's no difference between that and my plain gravel tank. infact my plain gravel tank grows better although its heavier stocked. I think dirt is the only way to go that really works. but your videos are excellent 👌
QUESTION: how/where do you buy aquarium dirt ? i cannot seem to find anything for it on amazon .. or at least with the quantities you have mentioned... if anything its triple the price of seachem for half the amount. any tips ? PS im in canada, not sure if this plays a role is availability
Mix it with Aqua soil, the fluorite doesn’t contain nutrients (except the red which contains iron) but it will absorb access nutrients from the soil.
Yeah exactly. It has a high cation-exchange capacity, so it will absorb nutrients right out of the water column. After a few months of "seasoning" plants will really really start to take off. Fish waste, food, and other detritus will also slowly filter down into the gaps and as that breaks down the flourite will suck up the nutrients (and the detritus itself will act as food for the plants). I don't think you really get the whole picture from a few weeks or a month of use. I don't keep tanks any more, but there's a 10 year old tank at my parents with flourite sand that's basically only had occasionally water changes, and every inch of substrate is covered with plants.
I set up a tank with flourite black. rinsed it a few times and had no dust. $33 for 15lbs bag. more expensive than dirt but not anything wrong with the substrate itself
Yup I just bought a 15lbs bags for $34 lol
I have black in my neo shrimp tanks it makes them look great.
THANK YOU!!!!!
What kind of "dirt" did you use that was so cheap? Where do you get it? thanks.. keep and up the great vids
Could those metal racks/shelfs hold the water filled weight of a 20gallon high fish tank?
I was super nervous after this video… but, I had read the directions and used a bowl. It was pretty clear with no rinsing. All is well.
Flourite doesn't provide nutrients for plants, the dust is not any more nutritious than the rest of it, wash it off as much as you want it doesn't matter. It does have trace minerals but it is debatable how much it helps if it all. It certainly won't help as much the dirt and iron rich clay you should have under it.
Just do as they say and be patient. I put plants in at the same time, and when it finally settled,nit settled on the plants too. I had to dust everything and wait again for it to settle. I used Red, and it's dark red water that comes off it! I don't like it right now, but we will see in a few months.
Make a video of the type of dirt that you use on your aquariums please!!!!.
100 percent agree
Would you mix Dirt/soil with $eachem Flourite or a similar product as a capper?
What kind of dirt do you use?
I used the one labeled just fluorite that is a mixture color, and I rinsed it a bunch of times till the water wasn't crazy filled with smoke looking water
Could you use dirt and cover with Seachem Florite? I just received a large bag for $19.99 on Amazon for my 10 gallon rimless
I mixed Seachem Black with Seachem Black Sand and Carib Sea Aragonite with 1:1:1 ratio. Works like magic lol
So what do you recommend?
At $24 a 15lb its reasonable. It's not soil it doesn't contain any nutrients. It's deal is It's supposed have better surface area to retain and hold nutrients. Love the review
It does contain nutriemts in the clay its molded into. I got a high tech planted tank and seachem flourite provides more then enough for my plants to grow supper fast and algae to grow from excess nutrients in the water column. it is a man made planted substrate. Also if you dont want cloudy water use a paper towl to no disturbe the substrate.
I have the Seachem Fluorite Red Clay, and you HAVE to rinse it a ton. Its really great, you wont rinse out the nutrients, but since its clay it will have a ton of red clay dust, and will be cloudy for a bit, just use a clear water additive. Dont worry, it wont stain your bathtub!!
I use a sift, strainer or Callander fine one and a use the water hose to rinse it clean it in a few minutes.
I didn't rinse mine.. spent the entire day doing water changes. Literally the entire day. Fuck that, I'm rinsing everything from now on #trustissues 🤣.
Chris I love the channel. but I miss the big fish. When do you plan on bringing some cichlids in
Bringing some in soon!
I had the same problem with Seachem Flourite Dark. It took months for it to settle. Cost 26.99 on Amazon for 7 kg, 15.4 lbs. Probably won't use it again.
chris what is the name of the dirt you buy. thank you joe h Navy Seabee
the stuff i got today just says flourite, its a rusty color tho. i like it and it looks pretty nice. just waitint for the water to clear! i was going to go with just aquarium gravel or sand but believe it or not i got this cheaper than the sand , i got 2 15 pound bags for 24.99 canadian and the bags of sand the same size start around 30 and up. given the scenario i went with this lol
I like the way sand looks but I wish it was better for roots.
It is what it is
I just subscribed buddy
As a new planted tank hobbyist this stuff is a bit of a pain. I had some plants float out of the substrate, and/or I have added stuff as an after thought. It's like if I look at this stuff it rusts right up. There is a fine dust all over my rocks, my plants...everything. I am actually considering redoing everything and maybe I can reuse the substrate and get rid of all of the dust by rinsing and redoing everything. Just frustrating!! I might use it in smaller tanks that will be one or 2 plants always but in a bigger one that might get changed around a bit I definitely would not use it. I bought it only cause it was 40%discount at a local pet store because it had a hole. It is frustrating for sure.
Since you already have it cap it with a sand or small pebbles. Then slowly fill it up and don't put fish that will dig into it. It works dude. I've done it even with dirt and natural clay that's waaay messier than any available man-made substrate. Water is clear from the moment I poured it in.
I got the red stuff and after a day of filtering it’s still red.
Not sure if anyone has said this or not but there was a forum where someone emailed seachem about the fluorite. And it is actually clay mined crushed fired and bagged. There are no nutrients added whatsoever so you can rinse it as much as you want. It's not a man-made product either lol. So i would suggest using root tabs and plants that pull nutrients from the water column
Edit: oof rough review bud. I know its your honest opinion but looking at the comments and all the positive reviews from a lot of people and fact confirmation makes you look like you didnt do your research and actual give the product a chance . I use seachem fluorite in all my tanks and ive had great success growing plants. From the water column to root absorbing plants. Just give it a chance. Also i wash the hell out of mine with a water hose when i first get it.
How long does the nutrients in the soil last before you need to replace it?
Fluorite is messy and over priced. Seachem Flourite is nothing but Montmorillonite clay. Safe-t sorb, $7 for 50 lbs at Tractor Supply, is also Montmorillonite clay.. Special Kitty unscented kitty litter at Walmart (red bag), $8.20 for 50 lbs, is also Montmorillonite clay. If you insist on using a clay substrate, save your money and buy Safe T sorb or Special Kitty unscented kitty litter.
@TM Aquatics Will any of those substitutes rapidly disintegrate, especially with routine gravel vacuuming? I know from experience that all of Seachem’s substrates are timeless.
I love you Tom!
If you use a strainer you won’t need to do crazy water changes when first using it. It was a lot of work the way I did it but ugh I almost regret buying it
If it gets cloudy. Remove your filter and wrap a paper towel at your intake. Replace it every few hours. Keep doing it until it is mostly gone. Then put your filter back on. It should be crystal clear soon after. If you don't remove your filter or put it back too soon, your filter will clog.
Can u review controsoil?
Yikes.. maybe try skipping the rinsing? I did not rinse mine and I had no cloudiness in mine at all. I did add the water in slowly and to avoid disturbing the substrate once I had it settled.
Kraken is some good stuff.
If you were from India,You had 1 million plus subscribers for sure
Fluval stratum is kinda cheap for what you get. We're not talking about weight with aquasoil, we're talking about volume. 8lbs of stratum will cover what 20lbs of eco complete covers. Stratum is also weak soil.
So so much In this video thats just beginner level experience, and advice.
Fluorite is inert. Eco complete is inert. Sand is inert. You need fertilizer with these inert substrates.
I'm not a fan of it myself. I tried it and it's a pain to deal with. I don't find my plants grow any better in it.
People need to understand that you have to put something over the substrate like a paper towl to not disturb the substrate your water will stay most clear like that. Then let a cycle filter with active benifition bacteria drop the the cloudyness. Ive started a tank off and within a hour its clear.
I use flourite in my high tech nano cube. The good thing in my case was that it wasn't algae bloom. In other thank where i use soil was lot more algae at the beginning.
Florite does not have any nutrients in it. It just gets dusty as it grinds itself down during transportation. Just put it in a bucket and wrinse it until the cloudiness goes away.
Organic soil topped with Black Blasting sand. Never fails. Under $20 for 100lbs of this stuff.
I've used Flourite in a layered Substrate, It did well with organic soil.
Or was it the Organic soil and I'm tripping 🤔
A year later... I hope you are still here🤣 but I'm returning the unholy mess that broken open bags of fluorite Amazon sent me for my son's new tank. If you're using organic potting soil, do you sift it or anything? Like if it has perlite should I sift that out? And how deep of soil and how deep of a cap works best? Thanks in advance...
"If I'm being honest" insinuates to people that you're usually lying.
I wish I watched this before I bought a bag :(
Oil-Dri has an _extremely_ similar look and Cation Exchange Capacity to Flourite.
It's like $7 for 45 pounds or something
Thanks for the review, I bought the Flourite for my new 40 gallon breeder. Also, things don't go good, they go well. You have not done good, you have done well. You have done well, son. Do you see the difference?
i got flourite red ($30). the color clashes so hard with my other tanks. i hate it. garden compost. it is WAY better (heavier, prettier) than eco-complete!
It is not intended to give your plants nutrients. The different colors are four different aesthetics, like choosing whatever color you would like in your tank. When you rinse it, you are simply rinsing off dust.
Bag says rinse.
Couldn't you put a flocculant to settle it
@Sheri Billick. Yes, I used Clarity after an hour of rinsing. It was most helpful.
I used a strainer maybe that wasn’t the best idea lmao
RINSE IT!!!!!!
Looks a LOT like SafeTSorb 😂 or the oil-dri brand of clay absorbants.
It says on the back
Rinse just ones 🤦🤦
There is a reason it’s called ‘dirt’ cheap
think you overpaid man. got mine for 20 dollars a petmsart with no sale or anything
This is someone who didn’t read the instructions on the bag then went off complaining about the product only thing he said about it that I agree with is yes it’s costly but no sea chem used with other sea chemistry products works he lies a few times by accident cuz he didn’t know or read a few things ….. I’m kinda disappointed in this review shrimp love it and I never have mess cuz I read the instructions 😂😂😂😂😂
This guy must have done no research before doing this review, fluorite is an inert substrate it won't change your water parameters or add significant nutrients, they tell you to wash it, you appear to just be making stuff up for your review.
I watch this video after buying like seven bags of this shit.. Oh my.
Did you use them? If so how did it go?
Dude you got ripped I just bought a whole bag for eight bucks off of Amazon... And dirt makes the water just as cloudy I think your review is bias.
Check out some of my tanks and tell me I’m biased
I DONT LIKE ANY SACHEM PRODUCTS WHAT DO EVER, NEVER EASY WITH THERE INSTRUCTIONS 🤷🤷🤷🇬🇧