I have seen your comment under our article Aquarium Nitrogen Cycle and Fishless Cycling. I am glad you have come here for help. The forum is a lot easier for back and forth chatting.
You need to add ammonia when the ammonia reading is at 0ppm. Otherwise the bacteria feed on the ammonia will be out of food and stop multiplying due to starvation.
For the fastest fishless cycling, you need to keep both species of bacteria well fed. Since nitrite is from the ammonia you added, just make sure there is always ammonia in the water will ensure the food source for them both.
The amount of ammonia to add isn't all that strictly important. I have kept adding ammonia to get readings of 5~6ppm during my fishless cycling. So a little more drops won't hurt.
Nitrite at 5ppm is high enough to kill some fish really quick, but it is perfectly normal during a fishless cycling. Since you already have a reading of nitrate, it means nitrite is being converted too.
According to the readings, you now have both nitrite and nitrate on just day 7. You are doing really good. It wouldn't be possible if you haven't used the heavy bacteria seeding product. Nice choice, isn't it?
My first ever fishless cycling without heavy bacteria seeding took me more than 3 weeks just to see... nothing had changed at all! Haha!
