when to add live sand

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i will filling my aquarium tommorow should i wait to add live sand untill the sediment settles? i have old castle sand if that matters..

also should i wait tilll i get live rock and use the rock to cycle my tank before adding the live sand?

thanks!!

mark
 
I would probably wait to add the live sand until the live rock cures, but that is just me. If you cure you lr with the old castle sand, there is not much need for LS, maybe a cup here and there from different tanks to increase the diversity of the sand fauna, but the critters on the rock will colonize the dry sand and make it LS.
 
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