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From what I've read, and what I've experienced with my own tanks, the bacteria will be fine for a week without an ammonia source. Daily feeding is not needed, in my opinion. Maybe once a week, put a pinch of fish food in there. Even though our test kits show no ammonia, it doesn't mean it's not present.
0.5ppm for ammonia isn't bad and if that's all the ammonia you're showing, I'd probably leave the shrimp in too. I stalled a cycle one time in my QT with too much ammonia - levels were up around 6ppm. Nothing budged until I did a water change to bring the ammonia levels down.
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