grgryhff62
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Apr 9, 2014
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i have been keeping fish for about 2 years i have a 35 gallon fresh water and a 55 gallon fresh water, i try to stick with the easiest fish since i am still fairly new i recently decided to try a planted tank which is currently under way i used scotts top soil capped with gravel and on top of that i put pool filter sand ,it has not cycled yet i planted it with some water wisteria,micro sword,java fern and some Fanwort well to my surprise a day later i saw hair on my plant so i contacted the lfs and told them about it and they said to put in some water conditioner ,so i pulled the hair off the plants and thought i was all set the next day i found out i also got some bugs that i thought wen i researched them that they were cyclops but two days later found out when they got bigger that they were in fact snails i have been running a 150 watt hps light only 6 hours a day trying to do a fishless cycle for about a week, i ended up having a problem with the snails eating some of my plants (as you probably already know that is quite a battle ) then i found out that the hair that i thought was human hair turned out to be green hair algae and with the light going the hair algae spread through out my tank at this point i removed as much as i could off of my plants but i have plant debris floating all over the place i have been trying to remove the plant debris but getting it all off of the pool filter sand seems to be almost impossible i almost want to rip the tank apart and start over but that doesn't sound too good to me either if anyone has a suggestion i would appreciate it. This is what brought me to become a member of this site i would like to expand my knowledge and learn from others who have experience