Couple Cycling Questions

[Easy]

So I am in the middle of my fish less cycle and I am going on vacation july16-19. What is the best way to keep my cycle going? Is fish food the only way? I don't wanna muck up the tank. Also I noticed the other day there are some tiny little creatures buzzing about on the inside of the glass. Well actually they are pretty slow. Hard to say what they look like because they are so small. They almost seem to move on the glass like a snail only much faster. They just showed up the other day although I did have some weird what looked like mosquito larvae twitching about in the water last week. Those seem to have disappeared and now I got these. Are they related? Has anybody ever seen this?

Also see my other thread journaling my experience so far with my fish less cycle. :

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/399475-my-20g-setup/

 

[Easy]

HOLY CRUD!!! THERE SNAILS".......WTH. I was trying to show the wife the little creatures when I looked at the backside of the drift wood and saw a HUGE snail cruising along. How did this happen? The only thing new I have added to the tank was the new gravel. And I washed that out like 10 times and it was per packaged from Petco. But come to think of it that when I started seeing strange things in the tank. PLEASE HELP .............

 

[4seasons]

So I am in the middle of my fish less cycle and I am going on vacation july16-19. What is the best way to keep my cycle going? Is fish food the only way? I don't wanna muck up the tank. Also I noticed the other day there are some tiny little creatures buzzing about on the inside of the glass. Well actually they are pretty slow. Hard to say what they look like because they are so small. They almost seem to move on the glass like a snail only much faster. They just showed up the other day although I did have some weird what looked like mosquito larvae twitching about in the water last week. Those seem to have disappeared and now I got these. Are they related? Has anybody ever seen this?

Also see my other thread journaling my experience so far with my fish less cycle. :

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/399475-my-20g-setup/

Just dose up your ammonia right before you leave on vacation and it will be fine. 4 days without ammonia won't hurt anything.

 

[Easy]

So I am in the middle of my fish less cycle and I am going on vacation july16-19. What is the best way to keep my cycle going? Is fish food the only way? I don't wanna muck up the tank. Also I noticed the other day there are some tiny little creatures buzzing about on the inside of the glass. Well actually they are pretty slow. Hard to say what they look like because they are so small. They almost seem to move on the glass like a snail only much faster. They just showed up the other day although I did have some weird what looked like mosquito larvae twitching about in the water last week. Those seem to have disappeared and now I got these. Are they related? Has anybody ever seen this?

Also see my other thread journaling my experience so far with my fish less cycle. :

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/399475-my-20g-setup/

Just dose up your ammonia right before you leave on vacation and it will be fine. 4 days without ammonia won't hurt anything.

Sweet, thanks bud!

Hey I was thinking, since I have all these #40## snails now(not sure if you seen other post) do they generate an ammonia source? I know for a fact they aren't sensitive to Nitates or Nitrites because they are both off the chartsn,LOL