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Originally Posted by erijnal It's generally accepted that adding livestock to a moderately/heavily planted tank is safe. Plants will utilize ammonia and nitrite to get at some nitrogen. |
I believe this is true only to some extent... for shrimp and some small fish perhaps... but when there are larger fish involved, or large numbers of small fish, I don't think you can expect your plants to completly make up for a lack of an established filter... just my 2 cents.
Anyway, in your case Burks, I would just setup the tank, plant the plants, wait a few days for everything to settle, and then add your shrimp. I'm also in favor of 'seeding' new tanks with media from the filters of other tanks... I do this with every new one I set up and it always seems to help speed things along.