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Haven't heard about dead shrimp? But yeah I'm actually headed to go grab at least 20 lbs of dry rock soon today. Ammonia source would be food being thrown in there does that count? I know the cycling produces just not quit sure with saltwater. Thanks for your time.
If you are just using fish food I think it will be a long cycle.
You can use a dead supermarket fish dept shrimp. Just throw it in and it will decompose giving you ammonia. I use pure ammonia to cycle my tanks, seems to go alot quicker. lol
With the fish food it can take several weeks to get enough ammonia built up to kick start a cycle. For more on saltwater cycling check this out
Alright good. My dad couldn't wait for the cycling he's more impatient then me and went to my buddy's pet store and got some of his biomax cubes to put in my filter so that should hyper speed things up a bit.