That's good news!
After I posted my questions, I was Googling and saw that Prime was OK for the initial cycling. So that gave me hope the Aqueon I used would be OK as well.
(it's not off topic...I was very interested)
About the using 5X as much by accident... any harm, or just wasted money? or should I start changing some water to dilute it? I don't have any fish yet (but my 3 year old likes us "pretending" to feed the fish when I put the flakes in).
Oh, I did buy two live plants.. they were only $1.24 each, so no loss if they die.