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After reading reviews and researching this product for weeks, it became clear to me that the single most important thing was not rinsing the living crap out of it, but to cure it under the sun. So I did exactly that, spending less than 15 minutes total rising my three bags and ending up with a fabulous, cloud free tank. I filled a 5 gallon bucket halfway and poured one of the bags into it. You can see from the photos that the resulting goo is not something you would EVER under ANY circumstance add to an exiting tank, or a new one for that matter! I poured that mess of a clay soup out and refilled the bucket halfway. I did that about 5 more times until the water was 90% clear. I repeated that process twice more for the other two bags then spread the Flourite out on a fitted sheet. I must point out here that had I wanted, I could have easily kept rinsing until the gravel was crystal clear, but I did not. Anyway, after about three hours under the sun, I emptied it into two buckets. The Flourite was bone dry and had a million tiny particles in it so it was a bit dusty. I poured about a gallon of water into each pail to keep the dust down then added it to the tank. I then filled it five gallons at a time, pouring the water onto one of the rocks in my tank. I immediately added my plants and despite all the rustling of the gravel to get them rooted, there was no cloud. Yay!