Started a No-Fishy Cycle, but I am getting some filter media

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Should I just throw my filter media in there and let what I have started continue or should I dump all my water and go from there?
 
By the way = when I am doing the cycle is the water supposed to be terribly murky? (like 6 inches of visibility)

and by the way right now I have 0 nitrates, 0 nitrites, 7.1 PH, unknown ammonia
 
unknown ammonia?

How ya doing the fishless cycle? Dead Shrimp or Ammonia drops?
 
I got three products from petco - all of which are supposed to start the cycle.....(one was called cycle) I used 20 gallons worth of each, (for my 55gal tank)

I figured if 1-2 of the three work hopefully they will speed up the process....I currently have 3 plants and no fish no ammonia. (besides whatever was in the products)

I am trying to figure out how to get the water to clear up - what causes murkiness anyways?
 
I also bought plants that were in established tank, with moss or algae or somethign on them. and a rock with moss all over it, hoping that that would already have some of the much needed bacteria.
 
You probably have a bit of a bacterial bloom in your tank. It's common in new tanks. If you didn't rinse your gravel really well, part of the cloudiness could be dust off the gravel. Sure, there's bacteria on the plants and the rock, but if you aren't feeding them with a source of ammonia, they will die. Feed your bacteria and once they become established, the water should clear up. Unless the cycling products you purchased were refrigerator-cold (i.e., BioSpira), they are bottles of mostly dead bacteria and won't help at all. I hope you got some sort of dechlorinator to inactivate the chlorine and chloramines out of your tap water.

You gotta know what your ammonia is. Get a good ammonia test kit.
 
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