Muddy Plants

[Rorie]

My ADA soil gets kicked up into a MASSIVE mudbath when i touch it.....i could just leve it, but i am tying to make things look better in my tank!

a couple days later, after the soil has settled, everyting is covered in a fine layer of mud - my glass ware, my plants, the lot!

I tried to distirb the plants to move teh soil off them, but this just resulted in damaged plants - they are all inter tangled tall grass type.

Any suggestions how to clean this up? Obioulsy the mud is restricting the light getting to my plants....and it looks rubbish!

 

[clay]

take them of of the tank and rinse them off

 

[PDSimon]

but if he takes them out won't replanting them make them muddy again

 

[ian]

this is one of the reasons top scapers use ADA soil as it's really not meant to be touched. Soils will kick up, which ever soil you use. Aquascapers will use it as they will have everything planned out before hand, so won't move anything about.