cycling help?

[thehammer1985]

I started my cycle 21 days ago and used a raw shrimp which is now a nice milky white disgusting mess. My ammonia got up a little darker than the 2ppm color with2 different test kits , nitrite up to .2 ppm and now its all at zero including the nitrate!!! Did I do something wrong? Ps my tank is a 110 with 29g refuge . I have about 80 lbs live sand and 90 lbs of cured live rock in the dt and about 5 lbs of crushd lr in refuge with a 3 inch sandbed. Thankis for the help in advance

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Doesn't sound like you did anything wrong to me. Do you have any macroalgae in the fuge?

 

[Rikerbear]

Sounds like you did it right to me. (you can remove the shrimp sludge)
What test kits did you use?

 

[thehammer1985]

No macro in fuge yet but been running ins 80 protein skimmer the whole cycle. And I am using red sea pro and api just as a double check bc I'm overly crazy. Do you think I can consider it cycled even with no spike in nitrates . Also would you add cheato at this point

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Yes, I would add chaeto. One thing that I do to see if the tank is ready for fish is ghost feed the tank for a few days and test the parameters. If there are no spikes, I add my first inhabitants.