Welcome to our forum Osage.
You have been getting nothing but good advice as far as I can see. WD is one of our more experienced members and has helped hundreds of people get through a fishless cycle. Your minor issue with a white colored cloudiness means nothing at all in the long run. We all started out in much the same situation as the one you find yourself. In the end we have all succeeded, one way or another, in getting our tanks and filters cycled. As others have already said, products like Cycle have been found to be largely ineffective. The only fancy chemical you will need to fishless cycle a tank is ammonium hydroxide in a water solution, commonly sold as anhydrous ammonia or simply as ammonia depending on your source. In the UK, it can be obtained at Boots and in the US it can be had at any Ace/True Value store. Both places, the one in the UK and the one in the US, sell the product as a general cleaner or a glass cleaner. Once you are able to introduce some ammonium hydroxide in water solution to your tank, you simply monitor that same chemical for being removed by bacteria in your tank's filter. When the ammonia reading on your tank is close to 0 ppm, you increase that to around 4 or 5 ppm. After the third or fourth time you increase the ammonia concentration, you will observe the nitrite concentration at over 5 ppm. At that point you will be in the "nitrite spike" phase of your cycle. A common practice during the nitrite spike is to reduce the daily ammonia dosing to one that will result in only about 2 ppm of ammonia. Once the nitrite spike has passed, raise your daily ammonia dosing to one that results in 4 or 5 ppm of ammonia shortly after the dose. Then you monitor your nitrites for a zero at 12 hours of both nitrites and ammonia. Once you can achieve that doubloe zero reading for a week, you can consider your tank's filter cycled and ready to tackle a full load of fish.
Before adding any fish, do a huge water change to reset the values of nitrite, nitrate and ammonia to near zero. Since a cycled tank can readily handle any traces of ammonia of or nitrites, the new controlling factor will become nitrates for your filter. The nitrate reading will determine how often and how big the water changes need to be from now on.
You have been getting nothing but good advice as far as I can see. WD is one of our more experienced members and has helped hundreds of people get through a fishless cycle. Your minor issue with a white colored cloudiness means nothing at all in the long run. We all started out in much the same situation as the one you find yourself. In the end we have all succeeded, one way or another, in getting our tanks and filters cycled. As others have already said, products like Cycle have been found to be largely ineffective. The only fancy chemical you will need to fishless cycle a tank is ammonium hydroxide in a water solution, commonly sold as anhydrous ammonia or simply as ammonia depending on your source. In the UK, it can be obtained at Boots and in the US it can be had at any Ace/True Value store. Both places, the one in the UK and the one in the US, sell the product as a general cleaner or a glass cleaner. Once you are able to introduce some ammonium hydroxide in water solution to your tank, you simply monitor that same chemical for being removed by bacteria in your tank's filter. When the ammonia reading on your tank is close to 0 ppm, you increase that to around 4 or 5 ppm. After the third or fourth time you increase the ammonia concentration, you will observe the nitrite concentration at over 5 ppm. At that point you will be in the "nitrite spike" phase of your cycle. A common practice during the nitrite spike is to reduce the daily ammonia dosing to one that will result in only about 2 ppm of ammonia. Once the nitrite spike has passed, raise your daily ammonia dosing to one that results in 4 or 5 ppm of ammonia shortly after the dose. Then you monitor your nitrites for a zero at 12 hours of both nitrites and ammonia. Once you can achieve that doubloe zero reading for a week, you can consider your tank's filter cycled and ready to tackle a full load of fish.
Before adding any fish, do a huge water change to reset the values of nitrite, nitrate and ammonia to near zero. Since a cycled tank can readily handle any traces of ammonia of or nitrites, the new controlling factor will become nitrates for your filter. The nitrate reading will determine how often and how big the water changes need to be from now on.
