------lifeofalez wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 10:41 amAh yes I get you! I no matter what have to do two orders from this site so was going to do the salt from here with the snails, moss and algea and then once it was ready get the shrimp so now I will just do the salt, the moss and algea and then when its finally ready order the snails and shrimp together! Thank you!!sliphorn wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 10:12 am You can put moss and macroalgae in before the cycle is complete and doing so "might" speed up the cycle because of the bacterial organisms attached to them. But why pay for two shipping charges if you don't have to. If you add the shrimp, snails, moss and algae to a well cycled tank you'll be fine because, again, the bioload is small. I think it is important to wait for the appearance of algae and biofilm to provide a food source for the snails and shrimp. Do it however you want, I just know that waiting for several weeks before adding anything is a perfectly good way to go. I've done it with several tanks and have had no problems. The waiting is difficult because we all like to see creatures or greenery in the tanks asap. Perhaps I'm overly cautious, but all I know is that the way I do it works, though there certainly is more than one way to skin a cat! Have at it!
You're welcome. I'm sure there will be others that will chime in with their suggestions. What are you going to use for substrate? If you live near a pet shop that sells marine fish supplies you can buy the salt from them as well as the substrate such as aragonite. It doesn't have to be aragonite as long as you add a source of calcium like crushed egg shell, a small chunk of cuttle bone, or crushed coral. One of my tanks has white sand and another has black sand. For those I buried a few small chunks of cuttle bone into the sand.
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I didn’t want to go ahead with the shrimp in snails when I had to put the tank in an area that didn’t get any light.