Am I Doing Something Wrong?

[airstone92]

Hi all- Well I recently have just taken up the hobby of fish-keeping. Now I didnt do much research before buying my first fish so I went into my LFS and asked some questions. They said I could just get a tank (with all the stuff) and some fish and Id be fine. So I ended up purchasing a 10 gallon top-fin tank with everything included, a test kit, and two beautiful fire red dwarf gouramis. The other day I found this website and saw the fishless cycling article and was very confused. Because here were my stats the first 5 days:

Day 1:
pH: 7.5
Ammonia: .15 ppm
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0

Day 2:
pH: 7.5
Ammonia: .15 ppm
Nitrite and Nitrate: 0

Day 3:
pH: 7.5
Ammonia .10
Nitrite and Nitrate 0

Day 4:
Didnt test

Day 5 (today):
pH: 7.5
Ammonia: .05
Nitrite and Nitrate: 0

Now I was expecting a huge ammount of Ammonia and Nitrites, but is it normal for them to be this low when cycling with fish?

Thanks for the help,
Steve

 

[Leitch]

if you do water changes it will go down.

And also, a small amount of fish wont produce very much anyway. They will have to poop alot to kill themselves.

Just change the water when the ammonia or nitrites go above 0 or the nitrates above 50. =]

 

[granpa]

Many years ago when i first started keeping tropicals the way to go was undergravel filters and put a hardy fish in to cycle, as long as you dont overfeed and keep an eye on things you should be ok there may be a nitrite spike soon as it looks like your ammo's spiked all ready.