So Many Choices Suddenly!

[soritan]

I guess the only solution is, to strip the tank down and bleach everything with the 1/19 solution and reassemble it. It's almost been a month since I started cycling... so this makes me feel like absolute ****... but if no one has a word on either thread, of advice, or somesuch.. that'd wind up being the only alternative.

Ah... that just makes me feel horribly sad.

Another month before fish, huh?

Almost enough to unplug the whole thing and give up right there.

 

[soritan]

Hey, I should be happy, as this means I can put sand in, right? After my next paycheck... and, really, aquarium keeping is all about patience, right? I'm glad that my betta will be in the 5.5g tank in the very short future.

It's just a short delay, right?

And it's just hydra.

Ah, so... I'm very sad. *sigh*

 

[Silverlady]

Cant help you with the Hydra,it isnt something that I had when I cycled my tank.In fact I dont remember seeing any thing alive till I put the fish in.
What are you adding to the tank to cycle it.Anyway dont be sad ,I know its an old saying ,but there is allways some one worse off then you.

 

[prankster705]

Some snails eat hidra ask in the invertbrates section.

 

[soritan]

Some snails eat hidra ask in the invertbrates section.

I actually started a thread already about 3 days ago, and no one has replied yet. Must be the way I talk, or something.

 

[Ethos]

If I knew anything about snails, I surely would answer.
Believe it or not, there are still many aspects of fishkeeping I need to learn about, lol

 

[soritan]

Well, the sentiment is definately appreciated. I guess I should be pleased that I didn't put my betta into the tank while it was still cycling (some people are of the opinion that bettas don't need a cycle, and that did kind of appeal to my impatient side).

I read on another forum that Malaysian Trumpet Snails will eat hydra and other little bugs. Some where else suggested I use chlorene - like, for pools, my spelling isn't always grand - and that it wouldn't kill my plants. But I'm fairly sure that wuold uncycle my tank. Somewhere else suggested super-heating the tank, but my heater only goes up to 86 degrees. X(

I put some new lights on my 10gal today, so I have 4 watts per gallon in there now. I hear for a 10gal, that means I have medium light. So my plants are doing well, at least. I just wish I could put something else in there aside from bugs.

I'm really really favoring the 'snail breeding' 5gal with betta and 2 adfs idea. It just seems like a really good solution to my fish obsessions. I wonder how many Dwarf Puffers I ought to get, being a researched newbie? Just one, or three. In a tank as 'well planted' as mine is now, and is going to be, I feel like a fish as big as a DP will get lost quite easily in there....

I think my little cycle of life in there came from the plants. I didn't clean the anacharis when I got it, and I now know that the lady who gave it to me has messy fish keeping habits.