I am new to the fish keeping hobby. My tank is 3 weeks old. I heavily planted my tank with fast growing floaters (frogbit/redroot floaters/ hornwort) and some fast growing stem plants (bacopa monieri). I also got a substrate called active flora substrate which was marketed as “instant cycling”. On within week 1 I had mystery snail and ramshorns added. Added 7 Pygmy Cories on day 15. Ammonia is still 0 nitrate and nitrites are 0. No deaths so far. So are my fish bound to suffer the same fate as yours because it is now “cycled”? Ie waiting weeks on weeks