Originally Posted by James0816

With RO water, depending on your plants, you will have to dose some kind of ferts as all the nutrients are removed during the process. If your not comfortable with dry fertilizers as yet, you can look at using Seachems line of products. But that is a little more on expensive side. I would recommend starting out with a PMDD pre mix and then gradually switching to EI dosing. If you are interested in dry ferts, check out AquariumFertilizer.com.

Shop lights are a good/cheap alternative. I use them on most of my tanks.

Sounds like you're good to go.