Well "finally done" and "fish ready" are two different things apparently. I started another thread about my stalled cycle to help figure out what went wrong. To the best of my knowledge this is what took place: My cycle started off great until my myriophyllum started rotting because of insufficient lighting. This decomposing matter help lead to not only the snail population boom in my tank, but also began to create a large spike of acids in my aquarium. This along with heavy nitrates from seeding cause a massive pH crash that killed my nitrosomonos (i think those are the ones that convert ammonia to nitrite), which would explain why all my nitrites disappeared a month into the cycle but the ammonia remained. With the high ammonia levels combined with an extremely acidic pH, all my snails died, which should have been a hint to me that things had gone sour. Before I began repairs, my pH was below 6.0, my alkalinity was non-existent, my ammonia was around 8ppm or more, and my nitrates were above 80ppm. I also had a green water algae explosion. To correct this problem, I began doing 30 to 40 percent water changes every day or two. This began to raise the pH as my buffering capacity was restored. I also dosed with some bases to help out the situation. I removed all the remaining myriophyllum except for the one surviving stalk (new lights later this week). I slowly watched my pH rise and my ammonia and nitrate disappear. The tank has almost finished its cycle now, as ammonia is very low and so are nitrites. pH is around 6.6 (good for my planned stock list) and my dKH is around 5. The green water is reduced and plants are thriving. I just added some more two days ago and once my pH stabalizes and ammonia and nitrites are 0 fish will go in. Hopefully I have reached the end of this saga.
Plant list(all looking great!):
Water Sprite
Italian vallisneria
Green and Brown cryptocoryne wendtii
Unknown species amazon sword
java moss
