Haha, yeah, the powerheads are ncie tho. No tubing all of the place and messy stuff. It works pretty nicely too. Its funny tho, like half of the tank is calm water and the other half is sortof flowing. Well about the cycle, its been at least a full week and a half, and during the past two days my nitrate level whent up and then down.. so i think thats good news. But as for everything else.. its all pretty much nuetral. To cycle the tank mainly all of my fake plants and decor was from another fish tank. Also, i put in a bacteria supplement that is supposed to boost the cycle.. but that was about 5 days ago. Everything seems to be running fine right now. Havent had a spike in any of the levels in 2 days.