cycle test, is it done?

[r2d2]

Hi all, I've been cycling my tank since a week ago with a raw shrimp. LR was already stablished in a LFS tank.
After 1 week shrimp does not look any more like a shrimp, very decomposed...
Test results over past 3 days...

Amonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 15

Does cycling is over?

Im not planning to add anything yet but my "old" LR from former 75g tank- This is in a QT tank waiting to cycle to finish, it has a lot of coraline, stars, feathers, and dont want to kill them...

Greetings

 

[GlassMunky]

If your ammonia and nitrites are at 0 then it's good

 

[r2d2]

Tomorrow I'll add LR from QT to my display and wait until cycling shrimp dissolve, then Im planning to make a 50% WC and add CUC.
How does that sound?

 

[burning2nd]

hmmm...

wait a min. water was already really alive? How long was the rock out of the water when you brought it home?

id say you might already be cycled... but i wouldn't go adding anything yet.
remove the remains of the shrimp, add your rock and sit on it a few weeks..

 

[GlassMunky]

Add the rock, remove the shrimp, wait a day or 2 and test again. The new LR that you put in could possably cause another mini cycle, which is why you should test again.

 

[r2d2]

New LR was out of water (but covered with wet newspaper) about 25 minutes between LFS tank and my tank.
Old LR was in a QT tank for about 1 month with a power head, light and no inhabitant but baby snails, lot of sandsifting stars, etc.
THis momrning I test again, with same results:
Amonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 15

So change my old LR to its new house.
I double check QT tank to move all living critters.

I'll wait at least two weeks to keep testing and in troduce CUC.

GReetings