How to speed up cycling process?

I wouldn't waste my money on the bacteria. It's just the bacteria that converts waste to ammonia. If you have no waste in there, it just dies. This bacteria grows within 48 hours after the introduction of waste all by itself.

Your best bet is to steal some media from an established aquarium. Not sure if you have any other tanks or if you know someone with a healthy, established tank that would give you some media. If you do have access to a cycled tank, see if you can run your Aquaclear on it for a few weeks. Transfer it to your tank when you add your fish (add only one medium/large fish or a few small ones at a at a time).

I like to use pure household ammonia to cycle. Get the ammonia levels in the tank up to about 4-5ppm.

Well you should keep your fish tank at the temperature it's going to be In when it has fish other wise drastic temps will kill the good Bactria , are you feeding the good bacteria ? I cycled my tank with feeding it fish food in a fish less cycle or pure ammonia with no additives , you need to get an ammonia spike then a nitrite spike then it goes down when you get a nitrate spike , if you don't feed it with anything it wot grow , use fish food or pure ammonia nothing will help speed it beside Bactria tablets but I dot know about those I just did a fish less cycle for 8 weeks in my 55 feeding a pinch of food every other day and checking the ammonia

Yes, you're doing everything that could speed up the process. Only other thing is actually seeding the tank with something from an already established tank (filter media, gravel, decorations, etc.) so there's a "mini colony" to grow.

Everything you have done should help...

Will it cut the time to 2 weeks? Can't say for sure how long, but the cycle should take 2 to 8 weeks, depending on "things". Hopefully you are closer to the 2 weeks.

Ian

Hey Eduardo!

Are you addingn your Veiltail male betta in there ?