If you are only adding 10 shrimp you wont need to worry about cycling the tank with ammoina first, that sort of setup may go to waste because there wont be enough shrimp waste to feed the huge amount of friendly bacteria you created with the initial ammonia start up. Setup your tank with your sand, rocks, salt water and heater etc and just let it sit with 12 hours of light a day until you start to get some nice algae growth. Test the water with a test kit and make sure ammonia, nitrites are 0ppm and nitrates are below 10ppm, (if nitrate is higher you can always change out a small amount of the water for fresh brackish water and this will bring it down). if all is good then put in your shrimp.
Dont be afraid to change some water with shrimp already in the tank if you ever get ammonia spikes etc, some people add ALOT of shrimp in one go and this can sometimes make the ammonia spike pretty fast so a water change brings this back down to a level that the friendly bacteria can remove it fast enough to provide healthy water for the shrimp and stop the ammonia lingering around for any amount of time.
When all is good then the only thing you really need to do is just top-up the tank with fresh unsalted water when evaporation kicks in and feed them once in a blue moon
Dont be afraid to change some water with shrimp already in the tank if you ever get ammonia spikes etc, some people add ALOT of shrimp in one go and this can sometimes make the ammonia spike pretty fast so a water change brings this back down to a level that the friendly bacteria can remove it fast enough to provide healthy water for the shrimp and stop the ammonia lingering around for any amount of time.
When all is good then the only thing you really need to do is just top-up the tank with fresh unsalted water when evaporation kicks in and feed them once in a blue moon
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