added some more plants. Banana plant and java fern. One picture didn't go through but thats ok

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Small update.

My snail laid some eggs and there are already about 4 live. The original one I posted and 3 smaller ones that I found as I looked in the tank. I am gonna have to remove them eventually because I don't want this to be a snail tank. I was thinking about using my 1 gallon bowl and putting some snails in there (1 maybe 2).

Also my tank isn't ready for fish yet. Ammonia is good (0 ppm), nitrites are too high however (2.0 ppm), and nitrates are fine at 40 ppm.

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I bought some driftwood for the tank, I also has a ton of algae which I suppose is good for the snails, so ima leave it alone for now.

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Driftwood has been added to the tank. I will be adding fish after I go back to school.

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looking very nice Mr. Brown

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10g- 2 hi-fin fm platys, 3 koi & red wag sword fry
40g Breeder- 6 danios, 4 female swords, 1 male swords
"I was born with nothin and I still got most of it left."- Seasick Steve

When I went to the member site map I found that you are probably the closest active member to me. Wanted to ask: What method are you using for cycling?

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10 g planted community, 10 gallon danio/RCS tank, 10 g ghost shrimp grow out tank, 10 g blue pearl shrimp tank, 75 g in the works.

My dad is from New York!

Anywho, thanks to summer one of the wisteria she sent me came with a snail. That snail then laid so many eggs and I have a whole bunch of snails that I do not particularly want. So I have been letting them do the cycling. They eat from any algae growth on the plants and sides of the tank, granted there is less and less from my daily doeses of excel.

So yea, I am just using snails.

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Cool. I have a tank that I use as a snail farm that I'd also like to use as a QT tank if I ever need it. (Don't know why I would, now that I think of it though, since my current 10 gallon is at capacity I think, but anyhow...) So, since I want to keep it cycled I had been wondering if the snails were enough of a bioload to keep it cycled. Let me know if you would how your cycle does with just these guys in it. I'd be interested to know. In the meantime I've been "feeding" my tank some leftover goldfish flakes every day to keep up the ammonia levels. Those snails are pretty tough so I doubt the decaying food will hurt them. BTW-If you ever get overrun by snails, you just trap those bad boys and I will take them! I had a pest snail problem in my tank so I got some assassin snails and the pest snails can't keep up! Now I love my assassins and they are turning out to be pigs. I hope my "snail farm" can keep up!

(Sorry to hijack your build thread.... I got excited by the concept of cycling with snails!)

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10 g planted community, 10 gallon danio/RCS tank, 10 g ghost shrimp grow out tank, 10 g blue pearl shrimp tank, 75 g in the works.

Sorry about that jon

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"Being ignorant is not so much a Shame, as being unwilling to learn".-- Benjamin Franklin

lol, it is okay summer

Also cadie so far it has been going well. I am down to .25ppm for nitrites so I am almost finished cycling. Hopefully it won't be too much longer. It has been about 3 weeks.

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Update: I found an aquarium store that I could donate my white clouds to. I hope they find a good home in NH. Also gary (my mystery snail) is loving the 10 gallon and it looks like I lost a bunch of pond snails in the move which is good cause it was getting ridiculous.

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My Ammonia is 0ppm, my nitrites are 0ppm, and my nitrates are 20ppm. I can finally get some fish. I will be going out today to get some

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nice looking tank there, I was just wondering, I just got the same driftwood you had in your pic. from petsmart, did you soak it or boil it? did your water turn brown at all? I've had mine soaking for 24 hours and the water looks pretty clear. What kid of fish did you end up with?

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90 gallon, 1 Iridescent shark, 2 Pleco, 3 Goldfish, 5 Cory cats, 2 Nerite snails
5 gallon hex, Blue Crowntail Betta, 1 nerite snail,

I boiled my mopani driftwood. I boiled for about 8 hours and the water did turn brown.

I am slowly adding Harlequin Rasboras. I will be adding 3 blacks first then three normal. After that I will be adding a powder blue dwarf gourami (planning on getting a female) and maybe 1 - 2 more rasboras. I have extra filtration so I am not worried about the stocking levels.

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Here is a video of the first inhabitants! Sorry about the quality I used my phone.

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update, tank has had a complete rescape and super duper gravel vacuum clean, with the removal of so many pond snails.

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Looks great! What are the thin-leaf plants you have in there?

Looking great there good sir

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http://www.aquariumforum.com/f46/29-...tml#post157525

Why thank you, the long flowy plant is willow hydro.

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