will cloudy water from sand hurt fish?

[gaya]

I just switched one of my puffer tanks to sand. It's still a litlle cloudy. I can see through the tank and all, it's just not crystal clear. If I put some puffers in there will they be ok?
thanks!

 

[Crookster]

I couldn't tell you for sure, but every time I start a new tank I find it impossible to get all the dust out the substrate, and so when I change water/vacum etc for the first few times it gets real cloudy. I've not had a fish die because of it though.

 

[WILDER]

put a large bit of floss in your filter that will remove the dirt, no it shouldn't harm the fish.

 

[Dwarfs]

I think some fish like it Their gills should filter out anything that could harm them from the cloud anyway Other than that most of the particles in the clouds are too small to do any harm

 

[gaya]

ok. the clound is from sand and i'm new to sand. Plus I'm new to puffers so I wasn't sure. thanks for your help.