Need help with my cycling!!

[ZeroShadez]

So im on day 7 of cycling my 125gal aquarium.i have about 125 pounds of live rock that sat in 70 degree water for about a week with good flow but i scrubbed them all really good with warm fresh water cause they were really dirty from the guy i bought the also very dirty tank from which i also cleaned thoroughly. Not knowing if the live rock bacteria survived i used the seed bacteria in a bottle for the first week of cycling (7 days as the bottle suggested i do). Day 7 is here and i am beginning my daily testing of ammonia nitrites and nitrates.
My ammonia is at somewhere between .25 and .50 ppm.
My nitrites are at somewhere between 0 and .25 ppm.
My nitrates are at somwhere between 5 and 10 ppm.
It seems like my nitrates are too high for this early in the process of cycling im not really sure i have been phantom feeding daily to help the process. Is this a normal 7 day analysis of a tank at this early in the cycling process?
Also im running dual protein skimmers with a venturi pump. trickle filter with bio bals. Soon to add algea reactor hopefully.

 

[reef lover]

Being that there was a lot of dead life on the rock to start has kicked started it. Hence the still high ammonia. Id keep going until the ammonia zeros out and then a large wc .

 

[brandon429]

agreed, none of the steps so far are antibacterial, it could have gone much colder, longer, and still retained them. your issue here isn't adding or preserving bac, but stopping/waiting for the rot to stop from all the upper organisms that did die. not a bac issue, waiting for rock to stop leaking rot issue.

if the rocks were always wet the bac remained.

 

[ZeroShadez]

Being that there was a lot of dead life on the rock to start has kicked started it. Hence the still high ammonia. Id keep going until the ammonia zeros out and then a large wc .

Hey thanks guys that helps alot that would explain the high nitrates.