I didn't go through with the 12 week cycle anymore. My cycling took about 6 weeks only but due to the fact that i was having problems with my softies in my main tank because it was getting too clean for softies...I decided to transfer about 98% of my softies already to my nano.
Here is what my nano looks like now...
Still battling some diatoms but hopefully that would go away soon. LED lights look a little too pink for me but my softies love it. I added also some snails over the weekend along with a pair of panda gobies which i have not seen again since i put them in the tank and a carpenter wrasse which is also hiding. I don't know if the wrasse will make it though. We'll see.