Need help Identifying

[beckto]

I am in the second week of cycling my tank. Its a 30 gal with 15lbs BS, 15lbs LR, 15lbs base sand, and 20lbs LS. I did the shirmp method for faster cycling, I also got 2 live pepshrimp to go along with the cycle. Well a couple days after the dead shrimp were sitting on the tank they devoloped a white film around them. I can only describe it as a spider web looking film, but very thick. Within the last 4-5 days its grown to about 3 times the size of the shrimp, and now spreading a few inches away, along the substrate.
Today I found a pep shrimp dead, and stuck to this film. Is this just coincidence of the shrimp dieing and getting stuck to the "film" or did this film kill it?
Is this what a normal decomposing shrimp looks like?
If this is identifed as harmful to my tank how shall i get rid of it?
P.S. I am just today getting signs of ammonia, ive monitored it closely and just tonight had VERY faint traces of ammonia.
Thanks,

 

[elfdoctors]

It sounds like you are having a normal cycle. The film on the dead shrimp is just a bacterial slime (which will break down the shrimp and then generate ammonia which will then allow the beneficial bacteria to live.
You added your live shrimp too soon. Your water chemistries will not be healthy for live shrimp for several weeks (at the earliest).
Good Luck!