Cycling tank with shrimp?

[ggray-1]

I may have done something dumb but now I dont know what to think, last week I set up a new tank and tried the dead shrimp method of cycling my tank. Its a 65 gallon with a wet-dry and about 45lbs of lr,I checked today my amonia nitrite and nitrate they were 0,0 and between 5-10 nitrates. Is it posible that it cycled that quick or what? I did not think that was possible.

 

[jmeader]

With good quality LR, properly handled, it is not only possible but likely. You will need to build up your bio-load very slowly though. Start with a hardy clean-up crew, but not all of them right away. Go slowly and take out whats left of the dead shrimp before it overloads the system. Good luck. Oh, did I mention, GO SLOWLY.

 

[HuBu]

shrimps are kinda sensitive to nitrate level.

 

[ggray-1]

thanks and mabe I should go slow!