Please help, I’m a complete newb!

[u/NiwaLeaf]

Hi everyone, I’m completely new to keeping an aquarium. I have one mystery snail named Pokey lol my mom found her old shallow murky tank by the side of the road with the garbage and she was inside. (I think she) I told my mom to bring her to me lol so now I have gone and got her a 5 gallon starter kit tank, I have crab cuisine and bug bites. I’ve been reading and watching videos but still feel like I don’t know what I’m doing. What you see in the video is the new tank setup, there’s a couple live plants in there, I got some sand and did sand on one side and her old gravel from her old tank on the other. I didn’t rinse the rocks and used some of her old water in this tank. I see people do a rotating diet but I don’t know how often to feed each thing and when? Anything else I should know to help (her?) thrive?

[u/NiwaLeaf]

Thank you! What does cycling the tank mean? 😅

[u/Subject_Night_4763 → u/NiwaLeaf]

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Granted I’ve been getfint all my info from a betta fish group but I feel as if it should be the same

[u/NiwaLeaf → u/Subject_Night_4763]

Also do you have advice on the feeding schedule?

[u/Subject_Night_4763 → u/NiwaLeaf]

For the snails they mainly live off algae and biofilm. I got algae wafers for plecos and they seems to somewhat eat it but I noticed is just makes the water look nasty more than them eating it. Since your tank is new I’m assuming it doesn’t really have any algae or anything growing in it so the wafers would be a good option to make sure they are getfint some sort of nutrition. My trapdoor barely eats them but the other two are them. I typically just do one wafer broken up scattered along the tank flooring

[u/NiwaLeaf → u/Subject_Night_4763]

Sounds good I will get some algae wafers too, thanks.