"I would like to reopen the debate about using table shrimp or other fish scraps to enhance or speed up the cycle."
"debate" De ting we use to catch de fish"
(enhance or speed up) neither one, fresh off the plane LR will cycle all by its self from die off, cured rock from a vat at the lfs has "done the deed" and gone quiet, at some point both FLR and CLR have an optimal point where it can accommodate a bio load addition, CLR has finished its optimal condition and has little useful bacteria left for adding a bio load to, it starved to death from lack of food, adding a deli shrimp or a live guinea pig achieve the same goal with the deli shrimp incurring far less unhappy karma for the reefer, the ammonia cycle resumes cruises along thru it various stages and poof! your ready to add fish, now a tank full of dead dry base rock would be both enhanced and speeded up, but thats a whole other ting lol.Steve