Evansimp
Aquarium Advice FINatic
So during the cycle you put in the raw shrimp it builds up ammonia then the nitrates and nitrites go up which you want then they go down to hopefully zeros and that's what you want and the cycles done
Basically! then you can slowly add clean up crew, then fish! I know it's really hard to wait! But this is the time you can aqua scape! Which is my favorite part of setting up a new tank