Cycling question

Question
I just filled a brand new 30 gallon tank yesterday and took from a healthy tank, 20% aged water, squeezed the bacteria from the polypads into the new tank water and put two aged biowheels in the Penguin 350b filter.  This ran overnight.

Today I noticed that the ammonia is at 0.50 and the nitrites is 0.25. Is this because the tank has jump started cycling? I didn't test the water yesterday because I didn't expect a reading with 80% new water in the tank and no fish. I've tried seeding new tanks before but never got a Nitrite reading so quickly. I plan to add a bio booster to the tank to feed the ammonia.

Any thoughts?

Answer
Hi Al,
I dont know if you forgot to mention if you are using fish to cycle or planning to do a fishless cycle.  But since you said you have no fish, I'm assuming you are doing a fishless cycle.  You need to add a source of ammonia in order for your tank to grow the necessary bacteria.  When you said you want to "feed" the ammonia, it threw me off because ammonia is what does the feeding :).  You need ammonia to feed the 1st set of bacteria that converts ammonia-to-nitrite.  After the end result nitrite is made, a 2nd set of bacteria, the nitrite-to-nitrate bacteria will start to grow.   

All you need to do for a tank to cycle, is to continue to add ammonia, whether it is by fish's waste or by pure ammonia in a bottle (without additives such as scented ammonia).  The bio-booster probably contains both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria for the tank to cycle, but even with adding these bacterias, you still need to add ammonia as a source of food.  The ammonia at .50 and nitrite at .25 is probably the end result of the organic compounds in the tap water such as the chlorine and chloramine being broken down by the bacteria.  You are doing the right thing by "seeding" and using aged water from the tank.  What you can also do is raise the temperature of the new tank to 80F to increase bacterial growth.  

Let me know if I am confusing you or if you have any more questions.
-Matt-