Oh great, thank you! Admittedly, the planting aspect is what I have been looking forward to the most.
I have definitely put my API Master Kit and the GH and KH tests to good use already. Luckily, my lfs was pretty impressive in terms of sending me home with some solid advice in terms of getting a great start on the cycling.
I am using RO water along with Seachem Equilibrium (so far, I have not needed to use a buffer). I started cycling with the following parameters:
PH 6.8, KH (dKH) 4 and GH (dKH) 7.
After 3 days, PH is constant at 6.8, ammonia is steadily dropping (started at 2ppm and down to 1ppm today) and I am starting to see some Nitrites (0.5)
I am hoping these all sound great so far and will work for planting purposes?