I agree. I have all my aquarium lights on a timer. They are very affordable too. I've gotten mine as cheap as $6.

What do you mean you have inserted the vacation food?

You should probably do a water change. Those things can really muck up your tank. Auto feeders work much better, but are also more expensive.

"A lady here was complaining about too many baby snails, I have four snails, they are doing the mambo a lot, but one baby snail???? I'm either doing something really great or really bad,,,, only mother nature knows !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

You probably have different types of snails. There is great variation amongst snail species. Physa fontinalis, lymnaea, ramshorn, nerite, apple, malaysian trumpet, rabbit, asian livebearing, assassin, etc. These are all snails but they are very different creatures. They breed differently and eat different things. For example physa fontinalis won't eat live plants, apple snails will, and assassin snails will actually eat other snails.