My cycle seems a little weird?

[Sandroni]

So, this is my second reef tank. It is a 45 gal Red Sea. I started the cycle on 8/20 (i used the uncooked shrimp method, leave it in for three days then take it out.) here we are 8 days later.... its done?!!!? my nano cycle was 9 days.... I'll list the results from my test notebook below:
8/20: NH4 0.25 NO2 0 NO3 5.0
8/21: NH4 0.50 NO2 0 NO3 5.0
8/22: NH4 0.50 NO2 0 NO3 5.0
8/23: NH4 0.50 NO2 0 NO3 5.0
8/24: NH4 0.50 NO2 0.25 NO3 5.0
8/25: NH4 0.25 NO2 0.25 NO3 10
8/26: NH4 0 NO2 0.25 NO3 10
8/27: NH4 0 NO2 0 NO3 10
8/28: NH4 0 NO2 0 NO3 10

 

[Sandroni]

I feel like its not spiking enough....

 

[Hitman]

Wow that's fast !

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Maybe the shrimp was not decaying much. It might be adequately cycled, but I'd test it before adding fish, either by adding another shrimp, or dosing ammonia.

 

[Sandroni]

Maybe the shrimp was not decaying much. It might be adequately cycled, but I'd test it before adding fish, either by adding another shrimp, or dosing ammonia.

im "re cycling" and i used 2 shrimp this time and its working much better