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Hi i had posted earlier about my aquascape, and now that i have that dialed in, i need some aditional help from you fine folks.
I have my rodi water all mixed with my salt at a specific gravity of 1.024 and now i believe its time to cycle. I have purchased a raw shrimp and plan on putting it in this evening to start my cycle and start building up amonia. I was thinking about adding a few pieces of live rock from my lfs to my base rock structure this sunday. Is this a good idea? or should i wait to add it after my cycle is complete? how long should i leave the shrimp? i was going to use a bottle of biospira, but for some reason the price on amazon jumped from 11 bucks to 20 over the coarse of 1 day so i think im just going to go regular cycling. Is this ok will i get the bacteria without adding anything or should i bite the bullet and buy the biospira?
Thanks so much for the help, you guys make jumping into this hobby so much easier.
I have my rodi water all mixed with my salt at a specific gravity of 1.024 and now i believe its time to cycle. I have purchased a raw shrimp and plan on putting it in this evening to start my cycle and start building up amonia. I was thinking about adding a few pieces of live rock from my lfs to my base rock structure this sunday. Is this a good idea? or should i wait to add it after my cycle is complete? how long should i leave the shrimp? i was going to use a bottle of biospira, but for some reason the price on amazon jumped from 11 bucks to 20 over the coarse of 1 day so i think im just going to go regular cycling. Is this ok will i get the bacteria without adding anything or should i bite the bullet and buy the biospira?
Thanks so much for the help, you guys make jumping into this hobby so much easier.