LR & Cycling

I'm going to go ahead and purchase 45 lbs of Fiji LR from liveaquaria. My
tank is a 46 gallon and it has been up for only 100 hours. I have heard
good things about this company and they are only a 4 hour drive (which I
drive on my route to my home town at least once a month).

I have the biowheel penguin 400 filter, seaclone 100 skimmer and as I was
told earlier; I'm going to take the Biowheels off of the filter and use it
for water circulation. I'm just wondering if I should leave the wheels on
for any period of time during cycling or if I should just take them off now?
The rock should be here by Thursday of next week. My plans are to let the
tank cycle until the LR arrives. I'll just put the LR in the tank after a
quick rinse in fresh sal****er. Is this the best method? I've read about
putting the fresh shrimp to rot in the tank. Is this good? I also have
some frozen brine shrimp. Could I dump some of this in there?

Also my lighting is RO. I know I should upgrade, but the cost of all the LR
will put it out of reach for a while. I just wish I could simply upgrade
bulbs and not have to get ballasts too. Is there high output bulbs I could
use in place of my regular fluorescents?

Thanks to all for taking the time to answer any of this.

....DeeOooGee