We Are Cycled! Querey Re. Numbers Of Fish To Get.

Big excitement in our house today - we are finally cycled after 4 weeks!

I've done a full water change and conditioned the water.  Our LFS has the cherry barbs that we want in stock, so I'd like to check how many it's OK to buy in one go.  I've cycled the tank at 1ppm ammonia, so would 6 be OK?  Hoping so as it's the recommended minimum group number.  Hoping to have 8 eventually, but not sure if I can do that in one go.  I would rather play it safe if necessary.

Hopefully photos to follow later!

Congratulations on your completed cycle. 
Looking forward to seeing pictures. 

Congratulations on your completed cycling.
I would error on the side of caution. Your tank is cycled, yes. But any fish you now add will add to the bio load of the filter. I would add 4 cherry Barbs. Then wait a couple of weeks for the filter to catch up. Then add another 4 fish. I understand nobody ways to wait, we want to see fish in our tank. But the filter still needs time to catch up to the extra fish be added. Fish keeping is about the welfare of the fish we keep, in our tanks. Don't be tempted to run before you can walk. This is only my opinion, sorry if I have upset anyone.
       

Congrats on the tank being ready.    Look forward to reading more (and seeing hopefully) about it.

If your ammonia and nitrite stay at zero over the next 2 or 3 days, I would get the last two sooner rather than later. It is always better to add a whole shoal at once rather than let half a shoal set up their hierarchy then add more so they then have to set up a new hierarchy.

Looks good.    I like the background too.

Thanks!  I've got some mopani wood to put back in too, but it had white goo on it a week or two back, so it's been taken out and dried  and is currently soaking in a bucket so it will sink when I put it back in!  I'll leave that for now though, as I don't want to stress the fish. 

We got 4 females and 2 males, and will get another male and female soon, so hopefully the balance will be right.  The males have been chasing 2 of the females round the tank and one of them is rather boisterous, so I hope the poor female isn't too bothered!  Haven't fed them yet - I was going to leave this until tomorrow, as I'd read somewhere this eases the initial bioload on the tank - is that OK?

Hoping to get x-ray tetra next - ideally 6-8, and then once the tank is more mature, some cories - hopefully 5 or 6 three-lined cory or another species that will suit our water.