4th day of fishless cycle. Quick question.

[Letsgometsreyes]

i am on my 4th day of fishless cycling. I dosed the tank with ammonia to 5ppm then next day dosed it with bio-spira. Today I decided to test the water (using Aqua farm test kit)and heres what i got ammonia 3ppm, nitrite 0.25ppm and for nitrAte the color was almost orange(5.0ppm) so u figure some where in between 0 and 5 but it definitely wasnt yellow(0ppm). everything double checked.Question is am i heading in the right direction??

 

[bettagurl]

you seem to be.

 

[webcricket]

Yep, and the Biospira looks like it gave you a good jumpstart! Just keep feeding that ammonia everyday until you no longer see ammonia and nitrite. When you can dose the ammonia, and then 24 hours later read 0 for ammonia and nitrite, you are ready for fish.

 

[Letsgometsreyes]

Yep, and the Biospira looks like it gave you a good jumpstart! Just keep feeding that ammonia everyday until you no longer see ammonia and nitrite. When you can dose the ammonia, and then 24 hours later read 0 for ammonia and nitrite, you are ready for fish.

Since the ammonia is at 3ppm should i wait untill it drops to 0ppm for me to dose it back to up