Buy bio spira, instant cycle and you add the entire fish load you plan on having. Except for algae eaters since there will not be any algae for some time. Easiest way but more expensive.
Other then that buy lots of fast growing plants, a few minnows or zebra danios if that is what you would want to get eventually anyway and cycle your tank the "normal" way. These fish are hardy and can handle it. I cycled most of my 11 tanks with 16 minnows and still have 12 of them. Swallowtail shiners, they are supposed to die in their third season and this is it and 12 out of 16 are still here on borrowed time. Best fish I ever had.
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