Thanks... Yes i think i will sell this sword and look into gettting some more medium-high light plants with my new light fixture... also what carpets could I grow with this light? The tank is 25 inches high light fixture is 2 inches from water and the light fixture is a 4 bulb T5-HO at 56 watts a bulb. Thanks.. And what plants can this light grow?
I'll give you a list of plants I am keeping/plan on keeping, its about 50% medium light 50% high light, maybe a few low lights in there. Check em out and see if you like them.
ammania bonsai
rotala macrandra
rotala walichii
staurogyne repens
alternanthera reineckii mini
anubias nana petite
green wavy buce
Ammannia gracilis
cryptocoryne lutea "hobbit"
cryptocoryne parva
hygrophila pinnatifida
red melon sword
Proserpinaca palustris
Rotala 'Colorata'
Gratiola viscidula
monte carlo
Hygrophila polysperma 'Rosanervig'
Myriophyllum mattogrossense
Barclaya longifolia 'red form'
Blyxa japonica
Cryptocoryne albida
Ludwigia arcuate
Ludwigia palustris
Mayaca fluviatilis
Myriophyllum tuberculatum 'Red'
Nesea pedicellata 'Golden'
Ludwigia Cuba
You could probably keep all these under your lighting, they would just need a lot of ferts/CO2.
A decent carpet would be glosso or monte carlo, they just need decent CO2 to form a good carpet.
Because your tank is tall, you could go with a Lilaeopsis species, dwarf hairgrass or a dwarf sage "carpet". DO NOT let the sag "carpet" get too thick because they will choke themselves out and starve the substrate of all nutrients. Ask me how I know
If money was not involved, I would absolutely love to see 1000+ crypt parva or crypt lutea "hobbit" manually planted to form a carpet, man oh man one day I want to try that on a taller tank.... my 90 gallon is just asking me to try that.... one day perhaps.
Anyway, that's my list of higher light plants I personally like.