Hi all, the guys at the pet store told me I could get my tank started while I'm away on vacation. I have a 10 gallon with a live plant and some of the water and gravel from its tank. It seems to have carried at least 1 live pond snail and countless eggs, some of which seem different from each other, but all look like snail eggs.
My questions are:
1. Will this be enough to get a cycle going? The gravel should have some bacteria on it.
2. Will I come back to a million snails, and will they destroy the plant? The one snail keeps suspiciously crawling on the plant's ravaged leaves, but I'm not sure if that's because he cant find food anywhere or what.
I'm planning on testing the water once I get back, but I don't really want to wait for too long after. I'll only have this tank for a few months before I have to move and I was just planning on a school of guppies, so I don't really care if they aren't the happiest If you have any other suggestions for cheap colorful fish I am all ears.
My questions are:
1. Will this be enough to get a cycle going? The gravel should have some bacteria on it.
2. Will I come back to a million snails, and will they destroy the plant? The one snail keeps suspiciously crawling on the plant's ravaged leaves, but I'm not sure if that's because he cant find food anywhere or what.
I'm planning on testing the water once I get back, but I don't really want to wait for too long after. I'll only have this tank for a few months before I have to move and I was just planning on a school of guppies, so I don't really care if they aren't the happiest If you have any other suggestions for cheap colorful fish I am all ears.