Tank cycle issues!

[joemomma1016]

So, I have set up my 29 gallon tank. about 2/3 full with water and live plants. Plants include:
Java fern, java moss, brazilian pennywort and anubias nana. I also have a sponge filter, and a plant growth Current LED light. I've been adding Seachem Stability to help grow the beneficial bacteria. My driftwood also has this white fungus coming from it even though I have boiled it for over 2 hrs. I added my ammonia source 4 days ago. About a nickel sized piece of frozen brine shrimp. The shrimp is also covered in the fungi now. I've been checking my levels everyday with a freshwater kit and all my readings are 0! Ph is at 7.4.
-Someone help me out here please. haha

 

[Chinadog]

I don't know what seachem stability is, but if you added ammonia to the system and yet your ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels are an indicated zero, I would say either you didn't add anywhere near enough ammonia, you're making an error in the testing procedure, or the kit is faulty. Unless you added some kind of ammonia remover it can't just disappear, it will either stay as it is, or be converted into nitrite and then nitrate by the nitrification bacteria. Live plants can apparently process raw ammonia, but I doubt they could remove the kind of amount needed to start a cycle.

 

[Doomus]

How much ammonia did you dose the tank too? And did you have any seeding material in the tank? And what are you useing to dose ammonia?


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