Thanks for responding Thor! Came home and tested this evening and readings are as follows:
Ammonia 0.25
Nitrites 2.0 to 5.0 (still not sure because those two are SO close on the color chart)
Nitrates 20
I have been keeping the light off and only running for around 2 hours at night (so I can monitor how long they are on) - but noticed that my planted anubias nana is slowly dying.  I trimmed off the dead leaves in hopes that it will bounce back, but it's just discouraging to watch it slowly rot.
Also noticed that there is brown looking dust all over my driftwood and laying on my heater. Is this algae?? It settles quickly after its stirred up, but just concerning.
I added ammonia to get levels back up and raised it to 1.0, but should I put in the remainder of the bottle of bacteria (there's not much left) and get the ammonia up higher?? I soooo wanted to be able to add some fish this weekend, but know I need to "stay the course" until we are at 0's on ammonia AND nitrite. Being patient just sucks sometimes...
Thanks again for the help!!
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