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I cycled my tank a few years ago by adding an uncooked, unseasoned shrimp that I put in an new ankle high panty hose. I just clipped the panty hose to the tank wall. I ran my skimmer to help with disolved organics. I think I had to change it out once and add another shrimp. I didn't run any lights during the cycle. I think my cycle lasted 3 weeks. I agree that you don't need the live sand as I added one bag of live sand to help seed the tank and I don't think that it helped shorten the cycle all that much.
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