One thing you could do is a planted tank. the plants will consume the ammonia during the cycle preventing the dangersous spikes. So by adding fish slowly you get a very safe cycle.

Then the aerobic bacteria can build up and slowly consumer the ammonia and the plants will finally consume the resulting nitrates for thier nitrogen.

my .02

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