Chris,

welcome aboard, you will want to wait at least 2 to 3 weeks to add your snails and clean up crew. wait till you start to see your algae bloom start. and then add them. if you do it before they are gonna starve.

and to keep the live rock alive do nothing. If you want to speed the process I would strongly suggest doing 2 things. 1. see if you can get a couple of cups full of sand from someone who has an allready established tank. this will seed your grave. and 2. throw a piece of fresh shrimp in the tank and let it break down.

other than that just practice patience. thisis the hardes part of the tank. just looking at it with nothilng in it.

but good lluck and if you have any more questions just ask

graphixx