Order in which I should add fish?

[Jordan_Deus]

I decided to cycle my tank using the "Silent cycle" method, for those who don't now, that's cycling with plants. I added 2 pots of Anubias nana, 1 pot of a strange moss like plant that I know not the name (Will add a picture tomorrow), 2 pots of Vallisneria, 1 pot of bacopa, 1 Dwarf Aquarium lily, and 1pot of dwarf hair grass. I mentioned the amount of pots to give you guys an understanding of the amount of plants in my tank, tomorrow when the lights turn on in my tank I'll take a picture so that you can better judge how heavily the tank is planted.

The Anubias and the hair grass were added about 10 days ago while all the other plants were added today. I also added today about 12 rather small ghost shrimp and a few hitchhiking pond snails. There is already growth in the Anubias and the Dwarf hairgrass. Now I intend to wait to see growth on the new plants I planted, this shouldn't take more than a week. Once all the plants are growing nicely I can start stocking the tank with fish. I added shrimp because there was already growth in my Anubias and Hairgrass, leading me to the conclusion that they are absorbing nitrate from the fertilizer. The small amount of ammonia produced by shrimp should be nothing for them, nonetheless I will test daily for ammonia and preform water changes as needed. Tested about an hour ago and Ammonia was at 0ppm.

My tank is a 60 gallon 100 x 43 x 57cm, water parameters are as followed, dGH - 8, KH - 15, ph - 7.6.
I intend to stock it with:
Bristlenose Pleco x3
Red Phantom Tetra x 22
Corys (Depends which are in stock as they aren't super common here) x16
Kuhili Loach x6

I'm not sure as to what order to add the fish, I was thinking the Plecos first over the course of 2 weeks. My logic is they have the largest bio load so adding them first insures I don't get a huge ammonia spike as the relatively large amount of ammonia produced by them will be the only ammonia source (shrimp are pretty negligible). Afterwards I thought to add the Kuhili or the Corys and finally the Tetras. Recommendations please!

Thanks,
Jordan

P.S. Pictures will be added tomorrow to give a feel of how planted the tank is.

 

[Byron]

You have no issues presently; in a tank this size, a few shrimp and snails will not be troubled, and if the plants are growing at all, absolutely not. BTW, the new leaves on Anubias is more likely from the past than the present; plants have to "decide" to send out a new leaf, then work to do it. Just so you know. This is why fast-growing plants are best in this situation. And floating are the best of all, being the fastest growing. If you can get some floaters, good.

Assuming the plants show signs of growth, then I would add the cories last. I only suggest this because they do not like changing environments and the more established the tank the better, though a new tank is not going to establish in a matter of days. Pleco first is fine.

Add the species as complete groups at the same time. So if you intend 15 cories, add the 15 together. The more there are with shoaling species, the faster they settle in, always.

Edit: same holds for tetras and loaches, just so you know which I suspect you do, they are shoaling species so all together.

 

[Jordan_Deus]

BTW, the new leaves on Anubias is more likely from the past than the present; plants have to "decide" to send out a new leaf, then work to do it. Just so you know. This is why fast-growing plants are best in this situation. And floating are the best of all, being the fastest growing. If you can get some floaters, good.

I actually got 3 small floating water lettuce today with the other plants on accident, I'l lleave them in until I can get my hands on some Brazilian Pennywort, the hairgrass has 100% begun to spread as there are little green tufts of it coming up between the places I planted it.

Assuming the plants show signs of growth, then I would add the cories last. I only suggest this because they do not like changing environments and the more established the tank the better, though a new tank is not going to establish in a matter of days. Pleco first is fine.

Add the species as complete groups at the same time. So if you intend 15 cories, add the 15 together. The more there are with shoaling species, the faster they settle in, always.

Thanks for the advice, I will do as recommended!