Quick little update. The 26 gallon is pretty much the same, I have lowered the lighting a little bit, not much change though. As for my little tank, the AR mini looks really good, I have about 4 stems of S repens that look pretty normal. One of the old stems had some good new growth then melted, so I trimmed it and replanted it so see if it would help and it kept melting. As long as the other 4 stems continue to look the way they do experiment part 2 will commence early next week. The R. Macandra and ludwigia I threw in there look fine just losing color from the low light.